From: Chad Brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dev-tsdh-* themes
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:25:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <725EC6CC-2ED6-4CAA-B2A3-43E0D2F858D1@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <svk4ig85x3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Jan 7, 2011, at 6:50 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Why do all the names have a "-theme" suffix? They are in a theme/
> directory, isn't that enough?
The default emacs mode line indicator (the primary identifier, IMHO) does a poor job of indicating the differences between cases like these. Start emacs -q and load up a theoretical `lisp/project.el' and it's test suite `test/project.el' -- it can be difficult to tell them apart.
I've long since adopted a different mode line format to address this problem, and list-/ibuffers addresses this somewhat, but there are still places (such as switch-to-buffer) where it crops up often enough that I'm totally unsurprised to see the information added to the file name.
Hope that helps,
*Chad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-08 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-07 9:46 dev-tsdh-* themes Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-07 10:35 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-01-07 10:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-08 2:48 ` Glenn Morris
2011-01-08 2:50 ` Glenn Morris
2011-01-08 9:25 ` Chad Brown [this message]
2011-01-08 9:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-08 12:33 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-01-08 9:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-08 10:10 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-01-08 12:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-08 15:37 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-08 16:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-08 17:33 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-08 17:53 ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-08 18:10 ` Glenn Morris
2011-01-08 17:59 ` Chong Yidong
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