From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-mode-line Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:12:10 +0900 Message-ID: References: <83lj8tb2yg.fsf@gnu.org> <87mxt0ihtd.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87wrs45s28.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281071544 1496 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2010 05:12:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 05:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 06 07:12:23 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhFEE-00037k-Pb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:12:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49191 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhFED-0003gv-UT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42053 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhFE7-0003fZ-QU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:12:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhFE7-0007ZU-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:12:15 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:37599) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhFE4-0007Z6-OM; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.184]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o765CBp8025417; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:12:11 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) id o765CBQ06486; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:12:11 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay61.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.64]) by vgate02.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILSV-NEC) with ESMTP id o765CBT18615; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:12:11 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay61.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.20] [10.29.19.20]) by relay61.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:12:11 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.113.21] [10.114.113.21]) by relay61.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:12:10 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id D1A9152E23D; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:12:10 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <87wrs45s28.fsf@telefonica.net> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22=D3scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:38:23 +0200") Original-Lines: 20 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:128355 Archived-At: =D3scar Fuentes writes: >> Anyway, there seems to be a preferences for "*" amongst responders so >> far... > > Whatever you decide, please consider allowing for some colorized > clue. Associating background faces to VC states, for instance, so the > user can customize "green for unmodified, red for modified" etc. > > I guess that asking for images would be too contentious ;-) I suppose that having an user-customizable alist for the mapping would be a good thing, and it could support propertized strings; lisp code shouldn't be looking at the mode-line indicators anyway (it should look at the actual state symbols). -Miles --=20 `Suppose Korea goes to the World Cup final against Japan and wins,' Moon sa= id. `All the past could be forgiven.' [NYT]