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From: | Juri Linkov |
Subject: | Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented. |
Date: | Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:17:40 +0300 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes: > ... >>> 12:25 can be confused with a time. 12-25 can be confused with a range of >>> some kind (12 through 25). 12.25 can be confused with a decimal number. >> >> 12/25 can be confused with? A rational number? :) Dates in the American style. This is especially confusing in the modeline if display-time-day-and-date is non-nil. > m/n is often used to indicate "m out of a total of n". This format makes some sense for displaying total buffer lines: "m lines out of a total of n lines of the current buffer" -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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