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: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:33:20 -0500 Message-ID: References: <18370.47294.641890.556694@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18371.9275.720477.806834@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <2vzltos6g1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <18371.49683.356527.589505@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18377.55334.203888.524043@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <434pbqcaz5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <877igjmlx1.fsf@jurta.org> <87hcfme106.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 1204752820 2989 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2008 21:33:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:33:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 05 22:34:03 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 1JX1FQ-0005l2-MO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:34:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JX1Et-0003Vu-2y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:33:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JX1Ep-0003VY-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:33:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JX1En-0003V2-Jo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:33:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JX1En-0003Uv-DO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:33:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JX1En-0003Jk-77 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:33:21 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JX1Em-00017p-2N; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:33:20 -0500 In-reply-to: <87hcfme106.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:29:05 +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:91412 Archived-At: > They do not seem similar to me. `highlight' is used for highlighting > text that is always present, and could be used on any text. `mode-line-highlight' is currently used for the same purposes on the mode line - for highlighting text that is always present on the mode line. After checking the code, I think you are right. Someone else compared `mode-line-highlight' to buttons, so I based what I said on that, but now I think that isn't really so. This text is only partly like a button.