Re: Dashes in mode-line

[Deniz Dogan]

2010/10/18 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
>> From: Julien Danjou <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:36:20 +0200
>>
>> What's the current status and rational about keeping the dashes in
>> mode-line?
>>
>> Reading the mail archives, I've seen Miles claiming it was only needed
>> for vt52 which we hope are not used anymore nowadays.
>>
>> It seems rather useless now, so I propose to remove them. Attached is a
>> first version of a patch implementing this removal. It really makes the
>> mode-line easier to read IMHO.
>
> I would support removing it in GUI sessions, but doing that on a TTY
> sounds too drastic.
>

Would you be in favor of making it easily configurable and make GUI
Emacs use spaces by default and TTY Emacs dashes?

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Deniz Dogan