From: "Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>
To: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Thought: Group Minor Modes Into Logical "Bundles"?
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:42:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1mt8g7kpb.fsf@yahoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p91leo1avqt.fsf@google.com> (T. V. Raman's message of "Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:15:22 -0800")
"T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:
> The minor mode indicators in the modeline are getting to be too many
> -- and though :lighter for shorter indicators help, I'm still finding
> them overly heavy to consume --- it's painful to listen to :-) though
> I suspect they also place a level of cognitive load on users who can
> that we might be able to reduce.
>
> For instance, in programming language modes, I suspect it's
> increasingly common to have autofill, abbrev, -- perhaps company etc
> turned on; would be nice if a user could:
>
> 1. Define a "logical bundle of minor modes " that are specific to
> various tasks, and then have a modeline indicater for that "bundle"
> defined -- so the Modeline would indicate "prog" for the user to
> know and remember that a preferred set of programming affordances
> are turned on. Thoghts?
There is the Diminish package in GNU ELPA:
https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/diminish.html I don't know if it already
supports the "bundling" feature that you propose, or something
equivalent.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-24 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-24 3:15 Thought: Group Minor Modes Into Logical "Bundles"? T.V Raman
2022-11-24 3:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-24 4:54 ` T.V Raman
2022-11-24 9:42 ` Daniel Martín [this message]
2022-11-25 8:51 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2022-11-25 15:09 ` T.V Raman
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