From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: battery.el: Rename display-battery-mode to battery-mode?
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:54:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9oe8dd7es.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pssu42bf.fsf@xs4all.nl> (Lute Kamstra's message of "Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:57:08 +0200")
On Thu, Aug 04 2005, Lute Kamstra wrote:
> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>
>> I tried to enable battery-mode on my notebook using `M-x battery-
>> TAB' but I got "No match". Eventually I found
>> `display-battery-mode' in `battery.el'. Shouldn't the name of the
>> minor mode read `battery-mode' instead of `display-battery-mode'?
>
> Agreed.
(In the meantime I saw that there's one similarly named (interactive)
command `display-time-mode'.)
>> +(define-obsolete-function-alias 'display-battery-mode 'battery-mode "22.1")
[...]
>> Okay to commit?
>
> Ok with me.
>
>> Shouldn't battery mode be mentioned briefly in (info "(emacs)Optional
>> Mode Line") as well?
>
> Maybe you can write a patch?
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- display.texi 17 Jul 2005 17:48:14 +0200 1.98
+++ display.texi 04 Aug 2005 17:54:03 +0200
@@ -890,6 +890,11 @@
to specify the directory to check for incoming mail (any nonempty regular
file in the directory is considered as ``newly arrived mail'').
+@findex battery-mode
+On some systems, Emacs can display battery status information in the
+mode line. To enable this feature, type @kbd{M-x battery-mode} or
+customize the option @code{battery-mode}.
+
@cindex mode line, 3D appearance
@cindex attributes of mode line, changing
@cindex non-integral number of lines in a window
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Of course one could describe some related variables
(battery-mode-line-format, battery-update-interval, battery-load-low,
battery-load-critical), but IIRC the goal is not to add to much text
to the manual.
Does it make sense to mention `battery-status-function' in the doc
strings of `battery' and `[display-]battery-mode'?
Bye, Reiner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-04 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-02 16:15 battery.el: Rename display-battery-mode to battery-mode? Reiner Steib
2005-08-04 6:57 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-08-04 15:54 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2005-08-04 16:28 ` Juri Linkov
2005-08-06 1:06 ` Juri Linkov
2005-08-06 18:36 ` Richard M. Stallman
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