From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Global bar to display global information Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 12:10:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hb5he3dy.fsf@wanadoo.es> <86k4a6pxup.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336407066 15838 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2012 16:11:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 16:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=E9my?= Compostella Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 07 18:11:05 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SRQWb-0003yq-Ci for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 18:11:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50634 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRQWa-0001Ul-Cj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 12:11:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39975) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRQWX-0001UQ-EE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 12:10:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRQWV-0005Jl-4G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 12:10:57 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:44040) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRQWU-0005JL-LA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 12:10:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q47GAppn029532; Mon, 7 May 2012 12:10:51 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B0D5FAEC0E; Mon, 7 May 2012 12:10:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22J=E9r=E9my?= Compostella"'s message of "Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:21:03 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4215=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4215> : streams <753700> : uri <1108565> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150356 Archived-At: Thank you, J=E9r=E9my, I installed your patch in the trunk, Stefan > I finally get time to work again on this global information area. I > think the use of " *Minibuf-0*" proposal is really interesting since the > echo area is most of the time useless and the global information are not > really useful when I'm using the minibuffer. So I tried to figure out > why it didn't work the way you said. > The problem is, considering I had put data in the " *Minibuf-0*", these > data are not displayed in the echo area. However, the " *Minibuf-0*" is > displayed each time I do a switch-to-buffer call. But once I type, the > echo area is cleared. > First, each time I type, the clear_message(1, 0) is called even when the > echo area is already cleared. This call looks useless and is part of the > cause of the behavior described above. > Second, when the echo area is clearing it does not redisplay the > miniwindow. So the " *Minibuf-0*" is not displayed as expected. > I tested this patch with emacs -Q, emacs -Q -nw and with my whole > configuration. Everything works perfectly fine and as > expected. Moreover, I verified that this patch does not generate extras > miniwindow redisplay. > Please merge it or review it, > Best regards, > J=E9r=E9my > -- > One Emacs to rule them all