Re: Customizing the mode line

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:28, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

> The more important issue is that helping users customize the mode line
> is not vitally important, as things go.  If we made customizing the
> mode line much easier, Emacs would not be significantly more useful as
> a result.
>
> Let's do the things that really make Emacs more useful.

By that simplistic priority scheme, we should not waste any time
fixing typos either.

> For instance, a lot of work has been done on MuMaMo.  Perhaps we
> should get that installed now.  Or perhaps we should use one of the
> other programs that do this job, or a combination.

That's a false dichotomy. Installing MuMaMo does not preclude working
on the modeline issue, or vice versa.

    Juanma