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Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID e649439ff0331e5d5c876e5b7e6b3b9d; Thu, 24 Nov 2022 09:42:09 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (T. V. Raman's message of "Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:15:22 -0800") X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.20863 mail.backend.jedi.jws.acl:role.jedi.acl.token.atz.jws.hermes.yahoo Received-SPF: pass client-ip=77.238.178.145; envelope-from=mardani29@yahoo.es; helo=sonic308-17.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:300435 Archived-At: "T.V Raman" 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.