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: display.texi: (,) isn't documented. Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:17:40 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87d507msov.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87y7ivkago.fsf@debby.local.net> <87ir9z7dv7.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181247530 1480 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2007 20:18:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 20:18:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 07 22:18:47 2007 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 1HwORS-0002Ev-Og for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:18:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwORS-0004ao-73 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:18:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwORP-0004ag-VI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:18:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwORO-0004aT-IT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:18:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwORO-0004aQ-Em for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:18:42 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HwORO-0004Wx-08 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:18:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HwORI-0002Ff-OR; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:18:39 +0300 In-Reply-To: <87ir9z7dv7.fsf@gmail.com> (Jay Belanger's message of "Thu\, 07 Jun 2007 14\:39\:56 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 7b6940144bc5d56bdacd12344196c2df 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 1127 [June 07 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 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: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:72437 Archived-At: > "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > ... >>> 12:25 can be confused with a time. 12-25 can be confused with a range of >>> some kind (12 through 25). 12.25 can be confused with a decimal number. >> >> 12/25 can be confused with? A rational number? :) Dates in the American style. This is especially confusing in the modeline if display-time-day-and-date is non-nil. > m/n is often used to indicate "m out of a total of n". This format makes some sense for displaying total buffer lines: "m lines out of a total of n lines of the current buffer" -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/