From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 41250@debbugs.gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com
Subject: bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 09:43:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831rnl4s0x.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9ky9p6o.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Fri, 15 May 2020 01:33:51 +0300)
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 01:33:51 +0300
> Cc: 41250@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > I suggest, as small improvement, to introduce a user option to turn off
> > or on displaying of ls-switches on modeline. As a suggestion I have
> > attached small hack to dired.el as tested on my copy of Emacs, but you
> > might wish to rewrite it. Drew had some other suggestions.
>
> Maybe instead of boolean better to use a number for the allowed limit
> that should not grow more than this number that means the length of
> switches string that the user can tolerate on the modeline.
>
> Then modeline will display abbreviation truncated to the specified
> number of characters, with an ellipses, on the assumption that
> the most important switches are at the beginning of the string.
That sounds better. Bonus points for arranging a tooltip that would
show the full string when the mouse is over that part of the mode
line.
> Customizing it to 0 effectively disables the display of switches.
Why not simply use nil? We could use zero, but that is a bit
"tricky", and doesn't seem to me justified in this case.
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2020-05-14 1:42 bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline Arthur Miller
2020-05-14 22:33 ` Juri Linkov
2020-05-14 23:42 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-15 8:44 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-15 18:55 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-15 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-15 21:08 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-15 22:19 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-17 3:09 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-17 6:59 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-17 11:12 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-16 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 12:18 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-17 3:01 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-17 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-17 16:34 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-17 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-17 22:57 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-17 23:37 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-18 15:08 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-18 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-05-16 14:42 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-15 19:54 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-15 22:19 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-15 22:24 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-30 16:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-30 19:04 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-30 19:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-30 19:58 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-30 19:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-01 19:37 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-01 19:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-02 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 14:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-02 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-03 17:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-02 6:54 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-02 14:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-02 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-03 17:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-04 19:44 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-05 7:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-05 20:15 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-06 1:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-05 15:49 ` Glenn Morris
2020-10-05 20:12 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-05 21:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-06 13:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-06 13:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-05 23:06 ` Glenn Morris
2020-10-06 7:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-06 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-06 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-06 7:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-06 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-06 8:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-06 9:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-06 9:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-06 9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-06 9:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-06 7:52 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-01 20:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-01 2:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-01 2:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-01 9:24 ` Andy Moreton
2020-09-30 21:07 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-01 1:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-01 16:35 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-30 20:56 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-16 23:11 ` Juri Linkov
2020-05-17 1:16 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-15 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-05-15 8:40 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-15 10:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-15 10:50 ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-06 11:36 ` Mattias Engdegård
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2020-05-15 21:00 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-15 21:14 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-15 22:04 ` Drew Adams
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