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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: rgm@gnu.org, nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
	Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>,
	dann@ics.uci.edu, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Diffs between %s and %s end here
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:20:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85fxuy8629.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JYbEx-000793-1u@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:12:03 -0400")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     Then we could use the same non-intrusive solution already implemented for
>     compile: when compilation is successful it displays the successful status
>     in the mode line of the compilation buffer in green.  When compilation
>     fails, it displays the error code in the mode line in red.
>
> Using faces that way seems like a good idea.  Still, the arguments
> offered against inserting a "finished" message, like M-x compile
> and M-x diff, seem to make much ado about very little.

As long as there is reasonable agreement that a "very little" change is
an improvement, I don't see anything wrong in following through.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-11  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-25 12:46 vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Nick Roberts
2008-02-25 20:25 ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Nick Roberts
2008-02-26  4:11   ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Glenn Morris
2008-02-26  7:38     ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Nick Roberts
2008-03-01 22:19       ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Glenn Morris
2008-03-01 22:26         ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Nick Roberts
2008-03-01 22:53           ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Glenn Morris
2008-03-02 16:12             ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Juri Linkov
2008-03-03  1:57               ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Glenn Morris
2008-03-03 17:13                 ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-03 21:23                   ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Nick Roberts
2008-03-03 23:27                     ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Juri Linkov
2008-03-02 17:25             ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Richard Stallman
2008-03-02 18:53               ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-03 18:27                 ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Richard Stallman
2008-03-03 18:58                   ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-04 17:38                     ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Richard Stallman
2008-03-04 18:39                       ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-05 21:33                         ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Richard Stallman
2008-03-05 21:50                           ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-07  3:38                             ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Richard Stallman
2008-03-07  3:46                               ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Miles Bader
2008-03-07 17:46                                 ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-07 18:05                                   ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Jan Djärv
2008-03-07 18:50                                     ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-07 22:18                                     ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Stefan Monnier
2008-03-08  7:03                                       ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Jan Djärv
2008-03-08 17:39                                 ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Richard Stallman
2008-03-08 18:57                                   ` Diffs between %s and %s end here (was: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator) Reiner Steib
2008-03-08 19:29                                     ` Diffs between %s and %s end here David Kastrup
2008-03-08 19:35                                       ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-08 19:40                                         ` David Kastrup
2008-03-08 21:33                                       ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-08 21:39                                         ` Glenn Morris
2008-03-08 21:59                                           ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-08 23:41                                             ` Glenn Morris
2008-03-08 23:58                                               ` David Kastrup
2008-03-09  0:29                                                 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-09 10:10                                                   ` David Kastrup
2008-03-09 15:02                                                     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-09 16:40                                                   ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-09 16:39                                             ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-09 17:57                                               ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-10  6:12                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-11  0:20                                                   ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-03-09 19:07                                               ` Glenn Morris
2008-03-10  3:02                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-10  6:11                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-10 22:07                                                   ` Glenn Morris
2008-03-11 20:24                                                     ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-09 20:53                                     ` Diffs between %s and %s end here (was: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator) Richard Stallman
2008-03-09 22:39                                       ` Diffs between %s and %s end here Reiner Steib
2008-03-08 19:18                                   ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-09 16:40                                     ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Richard Stallman
2008-03-09 17:10                                       ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-09 16:40                                     ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Richard Stallman
2008-03-07  3:55                               ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-03  1:56               ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Glenn Morris
2008-03-03 18:27                 ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Richard Stallman
2008-03-03 21:04                   ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Glenn Morris
2008-03-04 17:37                     ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Richard Stallman
2008-03-03 23:27                   ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Juri Linkov
2008-03-04 17:38                     ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Richard Stallman
2008-03-04 19:29                       ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Juri Linkov
2008-03-04 22:33                         ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Stefan Monnier
2008-03-05 21:33                         ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Richard Stallman
2008-03-02  5:53         ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Stefan Monnier
2008-03-02  6:15           ` vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Nick Roberts
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-11-29  1:03 diff-mode misinterprets empty lines Richard Stallman
2007-11-29  9:26 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-29 16:09   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-05  7:35     ` Paul Eggert
2007-12-05 10:17       ` Jim Meyering
2007-12-05 10:58         ` David Kastrup
2007-12-05 11:27           ` Jim Meyering
2007-12-05 14:59             ` David Kastrup
2007-12-05 17:45               ` Paul Eggert
2007-12-05 21:04                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-12-06 15:39                   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-06  0:15                     ` Glenn Morris
2008-01-14 21:08                       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-14 21:38                         ` Glenn Morris
2008-01-14 22:46                           ` Glenn Morris
2008-01-14 23:35                             ` Diffs between %s and %s end here (was: diff-mode misinterprets empty lines.) Reiner Steib
2008-01-15  3:29                               ` Diffs between %s and %s end here Miles Bader
2008-01-16  8:13                                 ` Glenn Morris

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