From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patch for Dired second header line info Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:56:14 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87bq5xatiq.fsf@jurta.org> References: <000101c87b38$1dcd2db0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <87fxv9zxqv.fsf@jurta.org> <000f01c87c3c$22f7db50$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <87y791mess.fsf@jurta.org> <002801c87c82$539474d0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204482483 30566 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2008 18:28:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 18:28:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 02 19:28:30 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 1JVsvD-0005St-0B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:28:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVsug-0006il-26 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:27:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVstw-0006PV-Np for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:27:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVstv-0006OJ-1X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:27:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVstu-0006Ny-LG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:27:06 -0500 Original-Received: from relay03.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.201]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVstu-0003OV-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:27:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay03.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JVstr-0003e0-WF; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:27:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: <002801c87c82$539474d0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 2 Mar 2008 08:27:36 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: ba97961d419726f65b83e74233c16638 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2347 [Mar 2 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 11 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) 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:91084 Archived-At: > It's true that we already do that kind of thing in some modes (e.g. `grep'), > but I think it's bad practice in general and should not be expanded. And > this file/space info is not as important as the info we put in the `grep' > lighter. A temporary indication of something can sometimes be appropriate in > a lighter area, but we shouldn't turn lighters into essays or status lines. > > Would you also add the space used/available to the Dired lighter? And would > you list the used/available figures for every inserted subdir in the mode line? No, I would only add the number/size of marked files as a temporary indication. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/