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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to debug this problem?
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:36:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3a72txyl.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xbaid46786e5.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (Leo's message of "Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:24:02 +0100")

> On an Emacs started last night, at the moment overwrite-mode does not
> show the lighter but visual-line-mode does. The values of the two
> variables are as follows.

[...]
> minor-mode alist:
[...]
>  (overwrite-mode overwrite-mode)

This says that the text to display in the mode-line is contained in the
variable `overwrite-mode'.  So, what's the value of `overwrite-mode'
when you expect something to be displayed?


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-04 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-13 15:08 How to debug this problem? Leo
2009-09-04  2:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-04  8:24   ` Leo
2009-09-04 17:36     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-09-05  0:10       ` Leo
2009-09-08 16:03         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-08 21:28           ` Leo
2009-09-09  3:08             ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-09  9:21               ` Leo
2009-09-09 14:26                 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-09 18:54                   ` Leo
2009-09-10  3:21                     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-10  9:21                       ` Leo
2009-09-10 15:00                       ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-11 16:46                         ` Andreas Schwab
2009-09-11 21:01                           ` Richard Stallman

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