From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: colon in the mode-line Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:23:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164979437 8212 80.91.229.2 (1 Dec 2006 13:23:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:23:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 01 14:23:55 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gq8Md-0003Yx-MG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:23:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gq8Md-0004zr-0M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gq8MH-0004ry-Ef for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:23:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gq8MF-0004ou-3h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:23:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gq8ME-0004oT-PN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:23:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gq8ME-0006jC-Ht for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:23:14 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-243-220.inter.net.il [83.130.243.220]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id FIU72275 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 15:23:11 +0200 (IST) Original-To: "Juanma Barranquero" In-reply-to: (lekktu@gmail.com) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:63188 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:05:35 +0100 > From: "Juanma Barranquero" > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > If the buffer's file uses > > carriage-return linefeed, the colon changes to either a backslash > > (@samp{\}) or @samp{(DOS)}, depending on the operating system. If the > > file uses just carriage-return, the colon indicator changes to either > > a forward slash (@samp{/}) or @samp{(Mac)}. On some systems, Emacs > > displays @samp{(Unix)} instead of the colon for files that use newline > > as the line separator. > > That's entirely my point: the description of multibyte character > support confusingly refers to a colon that some users won't ever see. > It would be better to simply refer to the first (or leftmost, > whatever) chars of the mode line, instead of them being "before the > colon". I fixed this.