From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display.texi: (,) isn't documented. Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:15:03 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87y7ivkago.fsf@debby.local.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181233025 13761 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2007 16:17:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:17:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 07 18:17:02 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 1HwKfP-0006jM-Uj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:16:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwKfP-0001NY-4a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:16:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwKfM-0001NL-JB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:16:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwKfL-0001N9-51 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:16:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwKfL-0001N6-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:16:51 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.174]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HwKfK-00028X-Qc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:16:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [89.12.116.193] (helo=debby.local.net) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKxQS-1HwKeW32B7-0008CT; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:16:25 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by debby.local.net with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1HwKdb-0002E0-CL; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:15:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Thu\, 07 Jun 2007 17\:49\:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19Qy4/X7LhgkmKjH8Law//Swnj1z4+oN9ms0t+ sqNe6xSe9GxIVNi48gMqIt3+ToSzv1IpsAc0z92yb4TizoJbXx nvThjWptCzf69zQzpmRKGQjMJMG0ZwJ X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:72424 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab writes: >> line & column - 67x234y > > That looks much like width x height with a spurious y tacked to it. I agree it looks like a window's size *and* as others pointed out is in the wrong order of importance, 234y67x look even stranger. So far David's suggestion is the nicest 11:55 but it might be confused with the (display-time) in the 24h mode! Generally I think people who choose column-number-mode should know what is what. But let's see when we disambiguate it a bit with a 'c' or a dash: 300c40 300:40 300-40 12c12 12:12 12-12 13c71 13:71 13-71 1c0 1:0 1-0 12345c0 12345:0 12345-0 12345c12345 12345:12345 12345-12345 With c the meaning is clearer, I think, with the dash it's more readable. I'd choose the single c. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany