From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Magnus Henoch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: global-mode-string padding Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 13:29:45 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097077269 23146 80.91.229.6 (6 Oct 2004 15:41:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:41:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 06 17:41:00 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CFDuV-0004ae-00 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:40:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CFE1C-00077z-GC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:47:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CFE11-00077n-7w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CFE10-00077O-Jj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CFE10-00077L-DO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CFDuH-0008Fa-5f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:40:45 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CFDuF-00050Y-00 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:40:43 +0200 Original-Received: from h170n1fls23o1074.bredband.comhem.se ([213.67.239.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:40:43 +0200 Original-Received: from mange by h170n1fls23o1074.bredband.comhem.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:40:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 7 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h170n1fls23o1074.bredband.comhem.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fxr1z3eh1rYktAbbLWEN9cIPJdE= 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21092 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21092 When several modes put information in global-mode-string, there needs to be space between each piece of information. Is there any convention for how to do that? erc-track has one trailing space, but display-time has no padding. Should a mode simply pad on both sides, to make sure that its status information doesn't run into other data? Magnus