From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inactive-mode-line face? Date: 11 Feb 2002 16:05:55 +0100 Message-ID: <5xeljsawj0.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <5xd703e406.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <5137-Tue22Jan2002120220+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <5xwuxn8qiw.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <1659-Sat09Feb2002113708+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <200202110208.g1B28gd06501@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1013440607 11766 195.204.10.66 (11 Feb 2002 15:16:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Feb 2002 15:16:47 GMT Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16aICE-00033g-00 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:16:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16aI23-0004DU-00; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:06:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16aI0b-00047i-00 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:04:45 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (kfs2.local.filanet.dk [192.168.1.182]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 15CBE7C035 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:04:42 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200202110208.g1B28gd06501@aztec.santafe.edu> Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:996 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:996 Richard Stallman writes: > Well, one problem is that all the windows become inactive when you are > in the minibuffer. That is, as soon as you type "M-x" or "C-x C-f", > all the mode lines become displayed in the inactive face. This might > be regarded as a feature, but perhaps users would like to know what > window is active even when they are typing at the minibuffer prompt. > > I think that when the minibuffer is selected, > the window in minibuffer-scroll-window should count > as the "selected" window as regards the mode line. Done. > > (That is the window that was selected "outside" the minibuffer.) > > Also, I wonder whether the default for this face should really be > different from the mode-line face. Perhaps we want that by default > this feature is invisible; > > This feature should be good for beginners if we get the colors right. > So the default should be that it does something you can see. As part of the above change, I added a mode-line-in-non-selected-windows variable which the user can set to nil to disable this feature. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel