From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: customizing minibuffer and the message bar, ie mode-line Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:47:12 +0200 Message-ID: <877ft6dcov.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <682e54d4-38b9-49ad-8e3b-0e7ab4451bdb@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429544856 16260 80.91.229.3 (20 Apr 2015 15:47:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:47:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 20 17:47:36 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YkDv5-0007ug-KT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:47:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54268 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkDv5-0007Y9-3C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55434) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkDuu-0007Y1-4y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:47:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkDus-0003Hk-NB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:47:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:57240) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkDus-0003HP-FB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 720CC6F336F for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:47:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6hlfbqlbcXSR for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:47:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2001:808:114:6:ccfa:9bbb:c700:f88d]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0EC516F334D for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:47:18 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103885 Archived-At: On 2015-04-20, at 15:31, Dan Espen wrote: > Alexis writes: > >> gnuist006@gmail.com writes: >> >>> (4) How to make the message-bar more professional? >> >> Like Emanuel, i'm not sure what you mean by "more professional", > > Actually, I found the question somewhat insulting toward the Emacs > developers. > > Therefore, I maintain that the question itself is unprofessional. While I rather agree with the above (especially that "professional" was not defined here, and it seems not necessarily to be an objective quality - for instance, it might mean a completely different thing for various, well, professions, like writer vs. programmer), one must admit that there is a lot of information in the mode-line (even with only the default settings), which may be distracting. This doesn't help very much - only a tiny bit - but decreasing the font in the mode-line might be helpful: (set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil :height 0.8333) (Personally, I did it with the (in a sense) opposite goal in mind: so that I can cramp /even more/ info in the mode-line, e.g. Org-mode's currently clocked task, which-function mode and a bunch of minor modes I use every day.) Hth, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University