From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: what-cursor-position - why not list the line # as well? Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:17:37 +0200 Message-ID: <878xqnbm9a.fsf@escher.local.home> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144019891 641 80.91.229.2 (2 Apr 2006 23:18:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 23:18:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 03 01:18:10 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FQBpe-0000xn-1B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:18:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FQBpd-0004uw-7V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FQBpS-0004uo-UQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:17:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FQBpR-0004ub-G2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:17:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FQBpR-0004uY-D9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:17:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FQBsN-00048z-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:20:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FQBpI-0000v1-12 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:17:44 +0200 Original-Received: from 87.123.189.0 ([87.123.189.0]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:17:44 +0200 Original-Received: from Stephen.Berman by 87.123.189.0 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:17:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 87.123.189.0 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52331 Archived-At: On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 11:51:05 -0700 "Drew Adams" wrote: > > I use both the column and line numbers in the mode line, but > > I would still find it handy to have both in `C-x =' also. [...] > You cannot copy+paste mode-line info (AFAIK). You can use format-mode-line, e.g. evalling (format-mode-line mode-line-format 0) returns an unpropertized string of the mode line. Steve Berman