From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:37:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34o7ywo0u.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwrj6j18.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:29:39 +0100")
Tom> How about propertizing the the mode-line so that the background color
Tom> changes from left to right as the task progresses?
Michael> That would be an invasive patch: the modeline string is known only in
Michael> xdisp.c, and we would need to change it there.
I think you could save the old mode line and replace it with an :eval
form that calls format-mode-line and then propertizes it.
I agree with Ted that it might not always be great. But I was only
proposing it as a option, not as the only way.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-20 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-02-17 12:14 ` auth-source-search: annoying messages Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 12:30 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-17 13:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 16:06 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-17 16:50 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters (was: auth-source-search: annoying messages) Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 21:43 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Michael Albinus
2011-02-18 14:47 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-18 20:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-20 11:29 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-20 11:33 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-20 18:37 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-02-21 18:54 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-22 17:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 8:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-23 8:46 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-23 15:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 15:59 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-23 16:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 20:56 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-23 21:28 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizableprogress-reporter--pulse-characters Drew Adams
2011-02-23 21:35 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 21:48 ` Global indicators (was: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters) Julien Danjou
2011-02-24 0:05 ` Global indicators Chong Yidong
2011-02-24 0:13 ` Drew Adams
2011-02-24 11:02 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-24 11:12 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-24 11:42 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-24 12:56 ` joakim
2011-02-25 2:41 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-24 12:37 ` David Kastrup
2011-02-24 13:56 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-24 16:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 21:53 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-24 16:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 22:04 ` David Kastrup
2011-02-24 0:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-24 1:27 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizableprogress-reporter--pulse-characters Drew Adams
2011-02-24 2:01 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Chong Yidong
2011-02-24 3:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-24 16:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-24 17:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-02-24 18:05 ` Global indicators (was: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters) Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-24 19:56 ` Global indicators Michael Albinus
2011-03-01 18:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-28 18:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-28 13:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-25 13:56 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Michael Albinus
2011-02-17 20:17 ` auth-source-search: annoying messages Stefan Monnier
2011-02-18 20:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-18 22:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-18 22:33 ` Stefan Monnier
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