From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Moving mode-line-position before global-mode-string in mode-line-format. Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:12:01 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87r8hr6aoe.fsf@lgh163a.kemisten.nu> <20020725190939.GA24737@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027710777 19130 127.0.0.1 (26 Jul 2002 19:12:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 19:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader , "Alfred M. Szmidt" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17YAWG-0004yR-00 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:12:56 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17YAmA-0005Gv-00 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:29:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17YAWY-0006KD-00; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:13:14 -0400 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17YAVU-0006JP-00; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:12:08 -0400 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6QJC1kd031976; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:12:04 +0200 Original-To: Karl Eichwalder Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 020726:keichwa@gmx.net:6d92391c314e4fd3 X-Hashcash: 020726:miles@gnu.org:0555bd93d3bd193c X-Hashcash: 020726:ams@kemisten.nu:e4eb742f615d0b13 X-Hashcash: 020726:emacs-devel@gnu.org:5b9fbf0c955b94e9 In-Reply-To: (Karl Eichwalder's message of "Fri, 26 Jul 2002 06:40:58 +0200") Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6071 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6071 Karl Eichwalder writes: >> I find the mode information far more important than the line number >> (the latter is very rarely useful). > > Why? Line number and percentage info is often important to me. The > mode info I simply take for granted. Same here, the mode follows from what I'm doing in the buffer, and the filename. I rarely even look at the CVS minor mode indicator, I know that I'm editing files under VC, and if I need to look at the revision info, I usually need C-x v l or something similar anyway. On a side note, the mode line indicators when using Gnus is utterly useless, I know I'm using Gnus by looking at the buffer.