From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77010 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:37:21 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87ei76yi1x.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lj1ergg5.fsf@gmx.de> <87ipwi3hjm.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwrmr6gf.fsf@gmx.de> <8739nm1u6n.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <878vxdxfzw.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwrj6j18.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298227082 29572 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2011 18:38:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:38:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25343@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Feb 20 19:37:56 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 1PrEAO-00050D-Et for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:37:56 +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 1PrEAB-0003NF-PM; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:37:43 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PrEA9-0003Mr-DI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:37:41 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PrEA8-0003Xg-2u for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:37:41 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PrEA6-0000TH-Ns for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:37:39 +0100 Original-Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1KIbOdE032093 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:37:24 -0500 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p1KIbNAD009034; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:37:23 -0500 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p1KIbM0w013059; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:37:22 -0500 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id F2C913792F0; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:37:21 -0700 (MST) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <87fwrj6j18.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:29:39 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.12 X-Spam-Score: -7.9 (-------) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77010 gmane.emacs.devel:136286 Archived-At: 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