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Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator |
Date: |
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:18:26 -0800 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I dunno, maybe it's just a personal foible, but emacs the "diff" command
> used to add this sort of terminator line (haven't noticed recently) sort
> of terminator string, and I always found it very annoying -- it probably
> doesn't cause anything to _break_ but it was like an ugly little wart,
> and I always ended up going to extra effort to delete it when saving the
> output.
>
> I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. If there is no
> other reason for its removal, we should put it back in.
I think you misunderstand, this has not been done in any released
version of emacs, it was just a failed experiment in CVS HEAD.
> I think the highlighted mode-line status indicators used by
> e.g. compile-mode (running or finished etc) now are really nice and do a
> great job of quickly making me aware of what's going on.
>
> Those canbe useful, but inserting text at the end is also useful. For
> instance, M-x compile does both. When it finishes, it inserts text
> saying "Compilation finished ...".
Compilation buffers are fundamentally different: people don't email them, read
the with a lot of attention, and don't pass them to other tools, so this
argument does not apply.
> It forces you to do yet another operation (delete the extra output)
> every time when copying from the diff buffer to and email message, or
> some other place.
>
> You don't need to delete that extra output. It doesn't cause any harm
> if you copy it into an email message.
I does, I've had a bad personal experience with that: after adding
patches at the end of mail messages with using M-x insert-buffer RET *vc-diff*
RET
I got a comment: "Please fix your mailer not to insert crap at the end of
messages"
There's no reason to subject emacs users to such abuse for absolutely
zero benefit.
- Re: Diffs between %s and %s end here, (continued)
- Re: Diffs between %s and %s end here, Glenn Morris, 2008/03/09
- Re: Diffs between %s and %s end here, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/09
- Re: Diffs between %s and %s end here, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/10
- Re: Diffs between %s and %s end here, Glenn Morris, 2008/03/10
- Re: Diffs between %s and %s end here, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/11
- Re: Diffs between %s and %s end here (was: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator), Richard Stallman, 2008/03/09
- Re: Diffs between %s and %s end here, Reiner Steib, 2008/03/09
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/09
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/09
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/09
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/06
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Glenn Morris, 2008/03/02
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/03
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Glenn Morris, 2008/03/03
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/04
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Juri Linkov, 2008/03/03
- Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/04