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Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye]
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Kim F. Storm |
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Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye] |
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21 Jun 2002 01:27:52 +0200 |
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"Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> writes:
> What do you think of this idea?
>
> The most important thing, the fact that this buffer will go
> bye bye without a trace is not mentioned there!
>
Hm, most non-file buffer names created automatically by various
packages start (and end) with an asterisk. So for such buffers, there
typically already is a visible difference in the mode-line.
The problem is with buffers which the user creates explicitly. Such
buffers are typically named like a file (except that they typically
don't have a file name suffix).
Personally, I choose dummy names for my own non-file buffers, so
I rarely confuse a non-file buffer with a file buffer. Of course,
if I name my temporary buffers file.c -- I'm asking for trouble :-)
I really think this is a non-issue (it actually took Dan 20 years to
be aware that there was a problem :-)
> Perhaps we could insert a dot in a space to the left of the
> `mode-line-frame-identification' segment of a mode line if the buffer
> is visiting a file, and replace that glyph with a blank space if the
> buffer is not associated with a file.
>
> I pick `dot' as the visible glyph since it is small, unobtrusive, and
> should not make the mode-line appear too cramped.
I don't think this will do the trick.
For one thing, I think that if we choose to make some annotation, it
should be on the non-file buffers (which are the dangerous ones to
kill).
Maybe we could write [TMP] before the buffer name for non-file buffers.
But not do this for buffer names starting with an *.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Richard Stallman, 2002/06/20
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Robert J. Chassell, 2002/06/20
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye],
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Robert J. Chassell, 2002/06/21
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Stefan Monnier, 2002/06/22
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Alex Schroeder, 2002/06/22
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Stefan Monnier, 2002/06/22
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Eli Zaretskii, 2002/06/23
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Richard Stallman, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Richard Stallman, 2002/06/23
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Alex Schroeder, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Richard Stallman, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Alex Schroeder, 2002/06/24