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Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progr
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Michael Albinus |
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Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters |
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Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:56:50 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm dubious about the idea. The mode-line is supposed to show
> information about one window, while the progress-reporter is a global
> indicator, so conceptually it's not a good fit.
As I have explained in another message, I propose to allow symbols for
the identification of the place where to show the progress. These
symbols could belong to the modeline. These symbols shall be made buffer-local.
But then it isn't a global indicator anymore, indeed.
> Global indicators, especially transient ones, ought to use the echo
> area.
This would still be possible.
> If that's too hard, how about reserving the first character in the echo
> area for a spinner instead?
This might interfere with minibuffers.
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, (continued)
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, David Kastrup, 2011/02/23
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/23
- RE: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizableprogress-reporter--pulse-characters, Drew Adams, 2011/02/23
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Chong Yidong, 2011/02/23
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/23
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Stefan Monnier, 2011/02/24
- RE: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters, Drew Adams, 2011/02/24
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- Re: Global indicators, Michael Albinus, 2011/02/24
- Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters,
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