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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: 53776@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: goncholden@protonmail.com
Subject: bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:02:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8xun5ss.fsf@rub.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CF-YW0_yS-IIBhXJmqX2imijIPtnxucxIbY09KOxp8z6hXQJE2kogLFpQiffCguPHFQbE1fXbdvJ6omFbfd7T4lAApbCDsRrSfh4gdeTZFs=@protonmail.com> (goncholden via's message of "Fri, 04 Feb 2022 11:55:45 +0000")

On Fri, 04 Feb 2022 11:55:45 +0000 goncholden via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> Have been using define-minor-mode and noticed that when setting the
> modeline indicator, the text is appended with no space between other
> modeline indicators. Is this how :lighter is supposed to work?

Yes, the lack of a space is in the definition of `mode-line-modes':

  `(:propertize ("" minor-mode-alist)

I guess the reason is that you can have multiple minor mode lighters and
providing a space between each would complicate the definition of
`mode-line-modes', so that's the job of the minor mode definition
itself:

> (define-minor-mode rich-minor-mode
> "This is the docstring."
> :lighter "rich"

So you should do this: :lighter " rich"

Steve Berman





  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-04 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-04 11:55 bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-04 13:02 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2022-02-04 13:22   ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-04 13:35     ` Stephen Berman
2022-02-04 14:05       ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-04 14:38         ` Stephen Berman
2022-02-04 14:43           ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-04 14:49             ` Stephen Berman
2022-02-05  6:45               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-06  3:39       ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-02-06 12:52         ` Stephen Berman
2022-02-06 21:52           ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-02-06 23:13             ` Stephen Berman
2022-02-06 23:59               ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-02-07  0:28                 ` Stephen Berman
2022-02-07  0:51                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-02-07 22:40                     ` Stephen Berman
2022-02-06 17:12         ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-05  0:12     ` Phil Sainty

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