Re: that unfortunate "Top" (or "Bottom") in the mode-line

[Eli Zaretskii]

[Please fix your mailer setup, so that it puts the right "charset="
header into your mail.  Your signature has non-ASCII characters in it,
but the headers say the message is plain ASCII.  An unmangled From:
address would also be nice.]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Lets say you start up '$ emacs -nw file' text mode without the trusty
> scroll bar at the side to help you get an idea of how much of the file
> you are looking at.  You look down and in the mode line all there is
> is that unfortunate "Top" (or "Bottom").  Why not in this case in
> addition still give the percentage of the file that is currently in
> view.

Can you suggest a more useful display?

Note that the percentage shows how much of the file is above the first
screen line, so at least for the "Top", we need to decide what to put
there instead of the (rather unhelpful) 0%.

If you want to replace the feedback of the scroll bar, perhaps you
want to see the percentage of the file shown by the window, not how
much of the file is above the window?

> I want to use more convenient Chinese input than Mule, etc. [I hear it only
> interprets single chars.]

Does it help that the next release supports XIM?