From: Heime via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Gabriel <gabriel376@hotmail.com>
Cc: 59624@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59624: Usning global-mode-string for small screens
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 18:52:54 +0000 [thread overview]
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------- Original Message -------
On Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 at 12:34 PM, Gabriel <gabriel376@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Heime via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
> editors" bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org writes:
>
> > I would need some more assistance to get this to work for me.
> >
> > When should I update mode-line-format ?
> >
> > Call it first, followed by (push '("" act) global-mode-string).
> >
> > Would I have to call (force-mode-line-update) ?
>
>
> Emacs is smart enough to know when to update the mode-line. What is
> the exactly problem you are facing? Does the following code do not work
> for you?
Wanted to knew the exoct calling sequence, as you described.
What if a package or made changes the mode-line? Changing
mode-line-format would not be an option then. I want to add
a small list to whatever there is. A suggestion has been to
add a list at the beginning of mode-line-format.
(push '("" act) mode-line-format)
> (progn
> ;; create the `act` variable
> (setq act "Indic")
>
> ;; add `act` to `global-mode-string`, so it's displayed in the mode-line
> (push '("" act) global-mode-string)
>
> ;; change position of `global-mode-string` in the mode-line
> (setq-default mode-line-format
> '("%e" mode-line-front-space
> (:propertize ("" mode-line-mule-info mode-line-client
> mode-line-modified mode-line-remote)
> display (min-width (5.0)))
> mode-line-frame-identification mode-line-buffer-identification
> mode-line-misc-info ;; <-- TO HERE
> " " mode-line-position
> (vc-mode vc-mode)
> " " mode-line-modes mode-line-end-spaces))
>
> ;; you can then update `act' as you want ;; the mode-line will be automatically ;; updated (when Emacs thinks it needs to) ;; the code below will update` act' every 3s
> (run-with-timer 3
> 3
> (lambda ()
> ;; not really needed, but you can force it
> ;;(force-mode-line-update)
> (setq act
> (format"|act=%s|" (current-time-string))))))
>
> ---
> Gabriel?
>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-27 2:51 bug#59624: Usning global-mode-string for small screens Heime via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-11-27 5:32 ` Gabriel
2022-11-27 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-27 8:08 ` Gabriel
2022-11-27 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2022-11-27 17:04 ` Heime via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-11-29 12:34 ` Gabriel
2022-11-29 18:52 ` Heime via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
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