From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Diffs between %s and %s end here Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:40:46 +0100 Message-ID: <85d4q5m2bl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <18370.47294.641890.556694@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18371.9275.720477.806834@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <2vzltos6g1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <18371.49683.356527.589505@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18377.55334.203888.524043@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <434pbqcaz5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <200803021853.m22IrRvA000730@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803031858.m23IwToH009344@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803041839.m24Idmis008291@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803052150.m25Loonc011429@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <85pru5m2ut.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <200803081935.m28JZTrK009021@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205005277 11342 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2008 19:41:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 19:41:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Richard Stallman , Miles Bader To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 08 20:41:42 2008 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 4.50) id 1JY4vG-0001Vu-Lz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:41:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY4ui-0005U7-L6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:41:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY4ud-0005SX-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:40:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY4uc-0005SH-CC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:40:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY4uc-0005SE-6Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:40:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.46]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JY4uR-0003j6-69; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:40:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-20-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-20-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.85]) by mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9CF931ED7C; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 20:40:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.48]) by mail-in-20-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A98510785F; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 20:40:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-102-246.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.102.246]) by mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FB12BBB46; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 20:40:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 773211C5682B; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 20:40:46 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <200803081935.m28JZTrK009021@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:35:29 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6173/Sat Mar 8 16:07:19 2008 on mail-in-08.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:91758 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu writes: > David Kastrup writes: > > > Maybe we should put informational messages like that as an > > (evaporating) afterstring overlay on the final LF character? That > > way they would not be copied anywhere. > > That sounds good, as long as M-w and insert-buffer don't copy that > string. Huh? Overlays are not a part of the buffer text. > But the main question remains: is it worth doing it? We already have > the mode-line notification, does adding another type provide a > significant benefit for the user? Its relevance is after the compilation text, so it is a natural place to look for it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum