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From: seberino@spawar.navy.mil
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How make this modeline item be recalculated more often?
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:11:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021011111102.A8529@spawar.navy.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k8z1y6xxix3.fsf@alcatel.de>; from c.marquardt@alcatel.de on Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:24:24PM +0200

Colin

I'm curious what exactly RMS looked into.  What exactly
was your question/concern???

Chris

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:24:24PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote:
> seberino@spawar.navy.mil writes:
> 
> >    (setq default-mode-line-format (list ""
> >                                    'mode-line-buffer-identification
> >                                    "     "
> >                                    (system-name)
> >                                    "     "
> >                                    '(:eval (format "%s" (+ (string-to-int "%c") 1))) 
> >                                    "Line %l Col %c"))
> >
> > I've been playing with adding one to column number in modeline and
> > came up with the eval element above....
> >
> > It evaluates to a 1 when column in zero but it is not updated
> > when I change the columns!?!?!? How make it be reevaluated
> > when %c changes???
> 
> I also asked this a while ago and got told that Emacs 21 now has display
> optimizations that prevent this from working like we want. RMS looked
> into it and said that changing it would require extensive modifications.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Colin
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-11 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1034163501.17035.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-10  2:33 ` How make this modeline item be recalculated more often? Tim Cross
2002-10-11 12:24 ` Colin Marquardt
2002-10-11 18:11   ` seberino [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1034359998.21370.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-14  8:40     ` Colin Marquardt
2002-10-09 11:37 seberino

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