From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: help-gnu-emacs Digest, Vol 198, Issue 25 Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 16:09:12 +0200 Message-ID: <865zqlm41j.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="225800"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 08 16:09:56 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hONGb-000wYH-N4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 May 2019 16:09:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37899 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hONGa-0004Ae-2r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 May 2019 10:09:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47976) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hONG4-0003zj-K2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2019 10:09:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hONG3-0006Hp-J4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2019 10:09:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42208 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hONG3-0006H9-Cr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2019 10:09:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hONG2-000vsZ-5p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2019 16:09:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:NNiNGgH0bTosLOCC3nVMuITpAxM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120262 Archived-At: Budi wrote: > How to make emacs always to show point value > on strip/bar The "mode line" is the Emacs term :) > what workaround to get such if no standard > menu exists Put (:eval (format "p: %d " (point))) in `mode-line-format', with `setq-default'. Check out [1] for how it is done, line ~37. However... It only works when the mode line is updated. By all means this happens when you type, do M-x, and many other things, but not when you just move point around w/o scrolling the text, for example. So then, point will be indicated as the same as when the mode line was last updated! You can `force-mode-line-update', manually, or schedule it with the idle timer, perhaps. But know that if you do it manually, that amounts to just having a defun that echoes point, and then invoke that when needed. Perhaps typing a char, and then deleting it immediately is faster tho, as this will be enough to get an update. On a personal note, I would get completely crazy (I'm getting that already typing this!) seeing at the same time the point value incrementing for every char I type... Also, I think, in principle, almost always incorrect information at times is worse than no information at all! HIH @ 1569! [1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/mode-line.el -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573