From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patch for Dired second header line info Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:27:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: <000101c87b38$1dcd2db0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <87fxv9zxqv.fsf@jurta.org> <000f01c87c3c$22f7db50$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <87y791mess.fsf@jurta.org> <002801c87c82$539474d0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <002901c87c8d$c299c730$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <87zlth7zwh.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204569148 1543 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2008 18:32:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 03 19:32:54 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 1JWFSl-0007UK-Ug for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:32:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWFSC-0000VS-RO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:32:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWFOG-0004r9-7E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:27:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWFOB-0004mk-1H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:27:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWFOA-0004mg-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:27:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWFOA-00045u-9d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:27:50 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JWFO8-0001Vr-RE; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:27:48 -0500 In-reply-to: <87zlth7zwh.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:57:38 +0200) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:91205 Archived-At: The string `total' is the standard string printed by `ls' so maybe we should keep it. Also what do you think about further compacting this line as: total files 420/694 space 19646/56456000 That is extremely misleading, since the first is VISIBLE/IN-DIR and the second is IN-DIR/TOTAL. In other words, the 694 is analogous to the 19646, but 694 comes second in a pair, while 19646 comes first in a pair. Also we could add a tooltip explaining what these numbers mean if they are not obvious. Using a tooltip to explain could be a good idea, but we should still try to make it clearer in the text. There is no shortage of space in that line.