From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chad Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo Was: Re: Efforts to attract more users? Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:51:42 -0700 Message-ID: <829E8EB1-13BC-413E-BFAB-6627F6DBEA27@mit.edu> References: <87pqyr6uyx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-5-95791864 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279050716 7721 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2010 19:51:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:51:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 13 21:51:55 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYlWE-0008Uk-BK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:51:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60219 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYlWD-0001PG-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:51:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39697 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYlW8-0001OZ-Vu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:51:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYlW7-0005Nx-B1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:51:48 -0400 Original-Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu ([18.7.68.36]:47395) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYlW7-0005Nl-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:51:47 -0400 X-AuditID: 12074424-b7b63ae000000a0b-33-4c3cc3d23040 Original-Received: from mailhub-auth-4.mit.edu (MAILHUB-AUTH-4.MIT.EDU [18.7.62.39]) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu (Symantec Brightmail Gateway) with SMTP id D9.A2.02571.2D3CC3C4; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:51:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by mailhub-auth-4.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id o6DJpkbB020271; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:51:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.1.5] (c-98-247-149-76.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [98.247.149.76]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as yandros@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id o6DJpgTA009066 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:51:45 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87pqyr6uyx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127210 Archived-At: --Apple-Mail-5-95791864 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Chong Yidong wrote: > Stephen Eilert writes: >=20 >> Things like real lines instead of "-" for the modeline (and a better >> looking modeline itself) >=20 > FWIW, I don't think the "-"'s are necessary nowadays. It may be a = good > idea to eliminate them. FWIW, I removed them years ago. I haven't encountered a situation where = I've missed them since emacs 20. *Chad= --Apple-Mail-5-95791864 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:

Stephen Eilert <spedrosa@gmail.com> writes:

Things like real lines instead of "-" for the modeline (and a better
looking modeline itself)

FWIW, I don't think the "-"'s are necessary nowadays.  It may be a good
idea to eliminate them.

FWIW, I removed th em years ago.  I haven't encountered a situation where I've missed them since emacs 20.

*Chad
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