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Subject: Re: display window width?
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 11:48:58 +0200
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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


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