On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 01:04:50 +0200 Thien-Thi Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
TN> () Ted Zlatanov <[email protected]> TN> () Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:47:19 -0400 TN> The extra buffer interaction to get interesting info seems annoying. TN> How about using `header-line-format' to display the breadcrumb TN> automagically, in addition to the popup detail? TN> My computer is slow, my attention ever prone to distraction, Emacs omits TN> header line and {scroll,tool,menu} bars, and only on command, dares take TN> action. That's fine, then you don't see it. Those who want decorations will get them. TN> Besides, what is a "breadcrumb"?! The path to a file is a breadcrumb trail in the filesystem, for example. Each directory name along the way is a node in that trail. In general, it's the path to get to the top of a tree-like hierarchical structure, with a way to see and even move to each level along the way. TN> Besides^2 (since this is a source mailing list), have you tried: (setq header-line-format (mapconcat (lambda (n) (make-string n (+ ?a n -1))) (number-sequence 1 15) "\n")) TN> That is interesting in its ugliness, i suppose. With some creativity it can look nice. Coming back to the directory name example, `dired' shows the directory name on top to show you where you are in the filesystem hierarchy. It doesn't use the header-line because it's a dedicated mode, but what you wrote isn't. Ted _______________________________________________ gnu-emacs-sources mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources
