Re: Different text/properties in active vs inactive mode line

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On Sun, 01 May 2011 03:49:38 -0400 (EDT), Eli Zaretskii wrote:



> That's okay, since I have no clear idea about what exactly you are

> after, either.





Hmm.  Okay, let me start over, with visual aids this time.  All links

below are to PNG images.



    I am trying to find a way to change mode-line text and/or

properties dynamically, based on whether the mode-line is currently

active or not.



    I have some propertized elements to my mode-line-format.  You can

see an example here: http://cl.ly/1o0e0x3N1m2F0b3X3x3J   (these aren't

the actual colors I use; this is an example for illustrative purposes).



    This works fine, but it looks awful against the mode-line-inactive

face, when I split the window. See http://cl.ly/3X132L2I2s1C3R3P0K1k



    Now, I could change the faces to look good with

mode-line-inactive, but then they look bad with the regular mode-line.

See http://cl.ly/0J0S361L3w3L1m0L0l2Z .  I suppose if I were some kind

of UI designer god, I could come up with combinations that look good

on both backgrounds.  But I'm not.



    What I want is to be able to define one face to use on the mode

line in the active window, and a different face to use on the mode

line for all of the inactive windows: http://cl.ly/1Y442G1C073O051G4630



    Then, when I move to a different window with C-xo, my custom faces

would change as the mode-line switches from mode-line face to

mode-line-inactive face: http://cl.ly/2Q1d3Z0q2a3W1s1S273m



I hope that helps.



-- Sue D. Nymme



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