Re: colon in the mode-line

["Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>]

On 11/29/06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:


> If the buffer's file uses
> carriage-return linefeed, the colon changes to either a backslash
> (@samp{\}) or @samp{(DOS)}, depending on the operating system.  If the
> file uses just carriage-return, the colon indicator changes to either
> a forward slash (@samp{/}) or @samp{(Mac)}.  On some systems, Emacs
> displays @samp{(Unix)} instead of the colon for files that use newline
> as the line separator.

That's entirely my point: the description of multibyte character
support confusingly refers to a colon that some users won't ever see.
It would be better to simply refer to the first (or leftmost,
whatever) chars of the mode line, instead of them being "before the
colon".

                    /L/e/k/t/u