From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76922 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:47:00 -0700 Message-ID: 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; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298040444 18015 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2011 14:47:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:47:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 18 15:47:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqRc8-0003u0-Du for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:47:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59558 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqRc7-0001oF-QN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:47:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33246 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqRbz-0001mv-CX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:47:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqRby-0003vI-2y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:47:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:39900) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqRbx-0003v5-Se for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:47:10 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1IEl3Dc027664 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:47:03 -0500 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1IEl2Xo009107; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:47:03 -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 p1IEl1XX011260; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:47:02 -0500 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 37F20378509; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:47:01 -0700 (MST) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <8739nm1u6n.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:50:56 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.23 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136182 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76922 Archived-At: >>>>> "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. [...] 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 How about propertizing the the mode-line so that the background color changes from left to right as the task progresses? Tom