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* display window width?
@ 2009-05-12  1:48 knubee
  2009-05-12  7:21 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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From: knubee @ 2009-05-12  1:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
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is there a setting so that emacs will always display the width of a
window?

thanks, k.


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* Re: display window width?
  2009-05-12  1:48 display window width? knubee
@ 2009-05-12  7:21 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
  2009-05-12  9:08   ` knubee
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Pascal J. Bourguignon @ 2009-05-12  7:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

knubee <knubee@gmail.com> writes:

> is there a setting so that emacs will always display the width of a
> window?

M-: (window-width) RET

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__


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* Re: display window width?
  2009-05-12  7:21 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
@ 2009-05-12  9:08   ` knubee
  2009-05-12  9:48     ` Anselm Helbig
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: knubee @ 2009-05-12  9:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

> > is there a setting so that emacs will always display the width of a
> > window?
>
> M-: (window-width) RET

thanks. but is there a way to always display this information in the
mode line?


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* Re: display window width?
  2009-05-12  9:08   ` knubee
@ 2009-05-12  9:48     ` Anselm Helbig
  2009-05-13  2:22       ` knubee
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From: Anselm Helbig @ 2009-05-12  9:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Hi!

At Tue, 12 May 2009 02:08:43 -0700 (PDT),
knubee <knubee@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > is there a setting so that emacs will always display the width of a
> > > window?
> >
> > M-: (window-width) RET
> 
> thanks. but is there a way to always display this information in the
> mode line?

You could do it like this:

(setq-default mode-line-position
              (cons '(:eval (format "[%s] " (window-width)))
              mode-line-position))

HTH, 

Anselm


-- 
Anselm Helbig 
mailto:anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com


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* Re: display window width?
  2009-05-12  9:48     ` Anselm Helbig
@ 2009-05-13  2:22       ` knubee
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From: knubee @ 2009-05-13  2:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

> > thanks. but is there a way to always display this information in the
> > mode line?
>
> You could do it like this:
>
> (setq-default mode-line-position
>               (cons '(:eval (format "[%s] " (window-width)))
>               mode-line-position))

great, thanks!


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