From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76928 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:08:35 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <878vxdxfzw.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87ei76yi1x.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lj1ergg5.fsf@gmx.de> <87ipwi3hjm.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwrmr6gf.fsf@gmx.de> <8739nm1u6n.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298059875 1827 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2011 20:11:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:11:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25265@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Feb 18 21:11:10 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqWfS-0001lE-71 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:11:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PqWeX-0006vB-Pl; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:10:09 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PqWeW-0006uv-0q for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:10:08 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PqWeU-0007fq-Eq for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:10:07 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PqWeT-00032S-35 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:10:05 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqWeS-00014Q-2N for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:10:04 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:10:04 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:10:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kcnd9IO9FLygvKbZ0PnOc70aFuY= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76928 gmane.emacs.devel:136190 Archived-At: On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:47:00 -0700 Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Zlatanov writes: Ted> I was hoping for something less noticeable, like `line-number-mode' Ted> but with the progress-reporter spinner taking up one char width in the Ted> modeline. MA> Nice idea. Could be "%/" (or similar) in `mode-line-format'. If MA> existing, progress-reporter spins in the modeline instead of the MA> minibuffer. Tom> [...] Ted> Another suggestion for progress-reporter--pulse-characters for both Ted> modeline and regular use: there are some Unicode glyphs which could be Ted> used if the font supports them: Ted> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Balls#Harvey_Balls_in_Unicode Tom> How about propertizing the the mode-line so that the background color Tom> changes from left to right as the task progresses? That would look really nice in a small area but the whole thing would be annoying: it's a big area (the effect is distracting when magnified) and the text may become illegible as the background changes. So maybe the `progress-reporter--pulse-characters' can be propertized with different background colors instead. Ted