From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 23.1 -- colored octagon in lower left corner? Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:19:37 +0100 Organization: Orbital Laser Death Rays R Us Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239565250 15769 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2009 19:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:40:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 12 21:42:09 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lt5Z7-0000Ev-Tq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:42:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46056 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lt5Xj-0006rZ-9c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:40:39 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: n3SSZ1tzIxg2mZBBOJzokA.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:19:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:R0Qz48LG6lgd1fOUTe4wzauX5w0= User-Agent: KNode/0.99.01 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168421 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63699 Archived-At: cmr.Pent@gmail.com wrote: > Hello! > > The latest version of Emacs 23 introduces a colored octagon in the > lower left corner of the frame. Sometimes it is yellow, sometimes it > is red. I'm pretty sure it's a sort of indicator, but what exactly it > indicates? > It did? What platform are you on? Are you building from GNU Emacs CVS or using some third-party distribution? Is it all the time or only in some major modes? No real idea - it does sound like it could be some "error/warn/okay" red/yellow/green traffic light icon for some validating mode, but I'm not seeing such a thing out-of-box... For ref, here's what an X11/gtk+ "emacs -Q" looks like on my system, with an Emacs CVS build from 10 mins ago: http://harpegolden.net/misc/emacs-x11gtk-20090412.png