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Re: inactive-mode-line face?
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: inactive-mode-line face? |
Date: |
11 Feb 2002 16:05:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Well, one problem is that all the windows become inactive when you are
> in the minibuffer. That is, as soon as you type "M-x" or "C-x C-f",
> all the mode lines become displayed in the inactive face. This might
> be regarded as a feature, but perhaps users would like to know what
> window is active even when they are typing at the minibuffer prompt.
>
> I think that when the minibuffer is selected,
> the window in minibuffer-scroll-window should count
> as the "selected" window as regards the mode line.
Done.
>
> (That is the window that was selected "outside" the minibuffer.)
>
> Also, I wonder whether the default for this face should really be
> different from the mode-line face. Perhaps we want that by default
> this feature is invisible;
>
> This feature should be good for beginners if we get the colors right.
> So the default should be that it does something you can see.
As part of the above change, I added a mode-line-in-non-selected-windows
variable which the user can set to nil to disable this feature.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk