Jun 26, 2022, 00:05 by psainty@orcon.net.nz: > Hi Carl, > > You might find the GNU ELPA package delight.el to be suitable. > See https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DelightedModes for details. > > There are other options as well, including these (and maybe > more besides): > > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/72194/454 > Because of the heap of packages that have been written, I would favour the capability to be included in the released version of emacs.  Besides being a request that is not so obscure, `delight.el' breaks down for `c-mode', `c++-mode', `php-mode', and possibly others. Besides, going through seven different implementations amounts to torture for users to decide. > Lars, I think this is a duplicate of bug#30978 ? > > > -Phil > > > > On 2022-06-26 01:08, carlmarcos--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" wrote: > >> The mode-line is a very important section of a window. But can be >> easily cluttered with >> names of minor-modes, as well as by programming and hypertext language >> major-mode names. >> >> For instance, loading an elisp file shows "Emacs-Lisp" in the >> made-line. When in *scratch* the string "Lisp Interaction" shows up. >> Because I use bold large font, it is easy for the mode-line to get >> cluttered. >> >> As is often the case, emacs users hardly change the mode associated >> with the corresponding programming or hypertext language major-mode. >> Most often, users work with minor-modes, meaning that people are aware >> that lisp programs use emacs-lisp major-mode, and C users are aware >> they are using c major-mode (although I find "C/*l" quite >> unnecessary). >> >> Emacs package designers have the ability to display a mode-line name >> with the keyword-arg `:lighter'. But the user has no way to remove the >> lighter from the mode-line. Would like to request the capability for >> users to remove :lighter keywords, if they wish. This would be >> particularly useful for those like me who usually have a dense list >> showing up in their mode-line. >>