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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Subject: Re: "consider M-x recover-file" too important to just flash
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:41:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4nr7huqwkh.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.856.1112349307.28103.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Fri, 01 Apr 2005, brakjoller.rem0veth1s@gmail.com wrote:

> Seems like emacs lacks some sort of more permanent status/message/echo
> area that is both visible (for some time maybe) and both not in the
> way. Hard problem to crack though...

Emacs has the modeline, which is appropriate because it belongs to the
buffer in question, so it's not a global alert.  A flashing (or
otherwise noticeable) message in the modeline might help.

Ted

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-01 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-28 19:04 "consider M-x recover-file" too important to just flash Dan Jacobson
2005-03-29  3:01 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-31 21:49   ` Dan Jacobson
2005-04-02  4:18     ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-17 18:11       ` Dan Jacobson
     [not found]   ` <mailman.821.1112315543.28103.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-01  9:32     ` Mathias Dahl
     [not found]     ` <mailman.856.1112349307.28103.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-01 16:41       ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2005-04-02 22:04         ` Dan Jacobson

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