From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Wohler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [MH-E] overlay-arrow-string in folder buffer Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:27:40 -0800 Organization: Newt Software Message-ID: <87ocyptsnn.fsf@olgas.newt.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230924507 23667 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2009 19:28:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 19:28:27 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 02 20:29:36 2009 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 1LIpi1-0002wy-GC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:29:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57414 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LIpgm-0004ae-Ec for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:28:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LIpgi-0004aP-1W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:28:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LIpgf-0004aC-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:28:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37025 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LIpgf-0004a9-C5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:28:01 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:39983 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LIpge-00043N-VB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:28:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LIpga-0001sL-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:27:56 +0000 Original-Received: from adsl-76-216-20-106.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net ([76.216.20.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:27:56 +0000 Original-Received: from wohler by adsl-76-216-20-106.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:27:56 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-76-216-20-106.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:onTR6hwjM2PtSFbix4oMHHuMy38= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:107534 Archived-At: Katsumi Yamaoka writes: > MH-E folks, please try running MH-E in tty. In September 2008 in > the fj.editor.emacs newsgroup, one reported that it is annoying > that ">" hides the message numbers as follows: > > 1001 > >002+ > 1003 > > It is because MH-E uses overlay-arrow and `overlay-arrow-string' > is hard-coded to ">". So I offered to him this hook then: > > (add-hook 'mh-folder-mode-hook > (lambda nil > (setq overlay-arrow-string ""))) > > Isn't it better to mention this in the manual, to make it be "" > in non-window systems, or to make it customizable? This has been fixed for some time. Since at least version 8.0 (which was in Emacs 22.2), there aren't any numbers at all in the first column so neither the cursor nor the ">" overlay anything. If you're already using these versions, then I'll bet that you've customized mh-scan-format-file. When you do this, you disable the ability of the mh-adaptive-cmd-note-flag processing to change the width of the message numbers (which is the main reason that people customize the scan format, and therefore removes the need to customize the scan format). In this case, you must set your scan format so that you guarantee that the first column is blank. I've added this information to the manual. Please see http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/manual/html/Scan-Line-Formats.html#Scan-Line-Formats Please include the output of mh-version in the future. Thanks for including MH-E in the Subject so that I was able to find your email. -- Bill Wohler http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD