From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: robert.thorpe@antenova.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to handle overfilled mode line? Date: 5 Oct 2006 09:15:40 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1160064940.678842.6540@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <87lknvzorb.fsf@baldur.nicundtas.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160066947 20866 80.91.229.2 (5 Oct 2006 16:49:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:49:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 05 18:49:06 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVWGw-00025Z-LG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:40:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVWGv-0006WJ-9h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:40:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.244.62.65 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1160064946 8838 127.0.0.1 (5 Oct 2006 16:15:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:15:46 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87lknvzorb.fsf@baldur.nicundtas.de> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF1ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=163.244.62.65; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142205 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37825 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn wrote: > Hi, > > my mode line is overly filled with much useful informations from > different modes like circe, emms, etc. If the buffer name is a littlebit > longer, it doesn't fit on my screen anymore. > > How can I handle this? Is there a solution like a multi-line mode line, > or a mode line which scrolls like many mp3 players do? What a painful problem, I can think of no good solution. What you can do though is try to be more careful about what minor-modes your associating with any major modes. Rather than starting minor modes in a blanket fashion try hook them only to the major modes you really need them in.