From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Narendra Joshi <narendraj9@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Face text property for `minor-mode-alist` item.
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 23:09:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s9i99zw.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im8nz3i9.fsf@gmail.com> (Narendra Joshi's message of "Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:13:02 +0100")
Narendra Joshi <narendraj9@gmail.com> writes:
> Is this a bug in Emacs or is this expected behaviour?
It's expected (but possibly under-documented?) behaviour -- the mode
line code tries to be super-efficient, and doesn't allow text to have
different text properties. As you've discovered, it only uses the text
property from the first character, and uses that over the entire text
fragment.
You have to use the special (:propertize ...) mode line constructs (and
chop up the text) to get more fine-grained text properties in the mode
line.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-27 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-27 15:13 Face text property for `minor-mode-alist` item Narendra Joshi
2020-12-27 22:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-12-27 23:46 ` Narendra Joshi
2020-12-28 1:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-28 1:46 ` Narendra Joshi
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