From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to debug this problem?
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:54:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xbaityzckky0.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvhbvcqjsi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:26:56 -0400")
On 2009-09-09 15:26 +0100, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> A wild guess might be it is a bug in the ns port.
>
> Could be, but it seems rather unlikely.
>
>>> M-: (format-mode-line minor-mode-alist) RET
>> With overwrite-mode enabled, that returns:
>> " Paredit" in the scratch buffer.
>
> This code should be pretty much 100% platform independent.
> So, please do M-x ielm
> and then in this read-eval-print interactive loop, make sure
> overwrite-mode is not nil, and then play around with
>
> (format-mode-line minor-mode-alist)
>
> e.g. start with
>
> (format-mode-line '((overwrite-mode overwrite-mode)))
>
> and if this one returns " Ovwrt" as it should, then add elements from
> minor-mode-alist little by little (ideally, using a bisection-search, aka
> binary-search) until you find what gets in the way.
This is the smallest list I can reproduce the problem. If I delete any
of them, it returns " Paredit Ovwrt".
(format-mode-line '((org-cdlatex-mode " OCDL")
(orgstruct-mode " OrgStruct")
(vc-parent-buffer vc-parent-buffer-name)
(dired-omit-mode
(:eval
(if
(eq major-mode 'dired-mode)
" Omit" "")))
(gnus-dired-mode "")
(snippet-mode " Snip")
(compilation-in-progress " Compiling")
(w3m-form-input-textarea-mode " w3m form textarea")
(w3m-bookmark-mode " bookmark")
(w3m-minor-mode " w3m")
(doc-view-minor-mode " DocView")
(image-minor-mode
(:eval
(format " Image[%s]" image-type)))
(reftex-mode " Ref")
(outline-minor-mode " Outl")
(TeX-interactive-mode "")
(TeX-PDF-mode "")
(slime-fuzzy-target-buffer-completions-mode " Fuzzy Target Buffer Completions")
(slime-repl-read-mode "[read]")
(slime-macroexpansion-minor-mode " Macroexpand")
(slime-edit-value-mode " Edit-Value")
(slime-popup-buffer-mode
(" Slime-Tmp" slime-modeline-string))
(slime-mode
(" Slime" slime-modeline-string))
(hs-minor-mode " hs")
(global-whitespace-newline-mode " NL")
(global-whitespace-mode " WS")
(whitespace-newline-mode " nl")
(whitespace-mode " ws")
(diff-minor-mode " Diff")
(gnus-topic-mode " Topic")
(gnus-undo-mode "")
(paredit-mode " Paredit")
(scratch-pad-mode " draft")
(type-break-mode-line-message-mode
("" type-break-mode-line-break-message type-break-mode-line-warning))
(savehist-mode "")
(server-buffer-clients " Server")
(global-auto-revert-mode global-auto-revert-mode-text)
(auto-revert-tail-mode auto-revert-tail-mode-text)
(auto-revert-mode auto-revert-mode-text)
(view-mode
#(" View" 0 5
(help-echo "mouse-3: minor mode menu" local-map
(keymap
(header-line keymap
(down-mouse-3 keymap
(reftex-mode menu-item "RefTeX Mode" reftex-mode :button
(:toggle . reftex-mode))
(abbrev-mode menu-item "Abbrev (Abbrev)" abbrev-mode :help "Automatically expand abbreviations" :button
(:toggle . abbrev-mode))
(auto-fill-mode menu-item "Auto fill (Fill)" auto-fill-mode :help "Automatically insert new lines" :button
(:toggle . auto-fill-function))
(auto-revert-mode menu-item "Auto revert (ARev)" auto-revert-mode :help "Revert the buffer when the file on disk changes" :button
(:toggle bound-and-true-p auto-revert-mode))
(auto-revert-tail-mode menu-item "Auto revert tail (Tail)" auto-revert-tail-mode :help "Revert the tail of the buffer when buffer grows" :enable
(buffer-file-name)
:button
(:toggle bound-and-true-p auto-revert-tail-mode))
(flyspell-mode menu-item "Flyspell (Fly)" flyspell-mode :help "Spell checking on the fly" :button
(:toggle bound-and-true-p flyspell-mode))
(font-lock-mode menu-item "Font Lock" font-lock-mode :help "Syntax coloring" :button
(:toggle . font-lock-mode))
(glasses-mode menu-item "Glasses (o^o)" glasses-mode :help "Insert virtual separators to make long identifiers easy to read" :button
(:toggle bound-and-true-p glasses-mode))
(hide-ifdef-mode menu-item "Hide ifdef (Ifdef)" hide-ifdef-mode :help "Show/Hide code within #ifdef constructs" :button
(:toggle bound-and-true-p hide-ifdef-mode))
(highlight-changes-mode menu-item "Highlight changes (Chg)" highlight-changes-mode :help "Show changes in the buffer in a distinctive color" :button
(:toggle bound-and-true-p highlight-changes-mode))
(outline-minor-mode menu-item "Outline (Outl)" outline-minor-mode :help "" :button
(:toggle bound-and-true-p outline-minor-mode))
(overwrite-mode menu-item "Overwrite (Ovwrt)" overwrite-mode :help "Overwrite mode: typed characters replace existing text" :button
(:toggle . overwrite-mode))
"Minor Modes"))
(mode-line keymap
(down-mouse-3 keymap
(reftex-mode menu-item "RefTeX Mode" reftex-mode :button
(:toggle . reftex-mode))
(abbrev-mode menu-item "Abbrev (Abbrev)" abbrev-mode :help "Automatically expand abbreviations" :button
(:toggle . abbrev-mode))
(auto-fill-mode menu-item "Auto fill (Fill)" auto-fill-mode :help "Automatically insert new lines" :button
(:toggle . auto-fill-function))
(auto-revert-mode menu-item "Auto revert (ARev)" auto-revert-mode :help "Revert the buffer when the file on disk changes" :button
(:toggle bound-and-true-p auto-revert-mode))
(auto-revert-tail-mode menu-item "Auto revert tail (Tail)" auto-revert-tail-mode :help "Revert the tail of the buffer when buffer grows" :enable
(buffer-file-name)
:button
(:toggle bound-and-true-p auto-revert-tail-mode))
(flyspell-mode menu-item "Flyspell (Fly)" flyspell-mode :help "Spell checking on the fly" :button
(:toggle bound-and-true-p flyspell-mode))
(font-lock-mode menu-item "Font Lock" font-lock-mode :help "Syntax coloring" :button
(:toggle . font-lock-mode))
(glasses-mode menu-item "Glasses (o^o)" glasses-mode :help "Insert virtual separators to make long identifiers easy to read" :button
(:toggle bound-and-true-p glasses-mode))
(hide-ifdef-mode menu-item "Hide ifdef (Ifdef)" hide-ifdef-mode :help "Show/Hide code within #ifdef constructs" :button
(:toggle bound-and-true-p hide-ifdef-mode))
(highlight-changes-mode menu-item "Highlight changes (Chg)" highlight-changes-mode :help "Show changes in the buffer in a distinctive color" :button
(:toggle bound-and-true-p highlight-changes-mode))
(outline-minor-mode menu-item "Outline (Outl)" outline-minor-mode :help "" :button
(:toggle bound-and-true-p outline-minor-mode))
(overwrite-mode menu-item "Overwrite (Ovwrt)" overwrite-mode :help "Overwrite mode: typed characters replace existing text" :button
(:toggle . overwrite-mode))
"Minor Modes")
(mouse-2 . mode-line-minor-mode-help)
(down-mouse-1 . mouse-minor-mode-menu))))))
(rcirc-omit-mode " Omit")
(rcirc-low-priority-flag " LowPri")
(rcirc-ignore-buffer-activity-flag " Ignore")
(rcirc-track-minor-mode "")
(rcirc-multiline-minor-mode " rcirc-mline")
(visible-mode " Vis")
(global-visual-line-mode " vl")
(visual-line-mode " wrap")
(next-error-follow-minor-mode " Fol")
(abbrev-mode " Abbrev")
(overwrite-mode overwrite-mode)))
> Stefan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-09 18:54 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
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 [this message]
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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