modeline: move battery indicator as provided by (display-battery-mode)

modeline: move battery indicator as provided by (display-battery-mode)

[Uwe Brauer]

Hi


I have turned on display-battery-mode since the battery of Laptop is a
bit old. However in some buffers, due to the amount of minor-modes that
are turn on, I cannot see the battery indicator. 

I already tried out

(require 'diminish)
(diminish 'abbrev-mode "Abv")
(diminish 'pabbrev-mode "Pabv")
(diminish 'eldoc-mode "ElD")
(diminish 'orglink-mode "OgLk")
(diminish 'flyspell-mode "Fly")


But especially in LaTeX (auctex) mode it does not help. Because the
mayor mode itself has a rather big string.

Can I place the battery indicator say just behind the column/line
indicator?

Thanks

Uwe Brauer 

Re: modeline: move battery indicator as provided by (display-battery-mode)

[Philip Kaludercic]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Can I place the battery indicator say just behind the column/line
> indicator?

You'd have to customize mode-line-format for that.

This would move all "auxiliary information" before the major mode
indicator:

(setq mode-line-format
      '("%e" mode-line-front-space mode-line-mule-info mode-line-client mode-line-modified mode-line-remote
	mode-line-frame-identification
	mode-line-buffer-identification "   "
	mode-line-position
	(vc-mode vc-mode) mode-line-misc-info "  "
	mode-line-modes mode-line-end-spaces))

-- 
	Philip K.

Re: modeline: move battery indicator as provided by (display-battery-mode)

[Uwe Brauer]

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>>> "PK" == Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>> Can I place the battery indicator say just behind the column/line
>> indicator?

> You'd have to customize mode-line-format for that.

> This would move all "auxiliary information" before the major mode
> indicator:

> (setq mode-line-format
>       '("%e" mode-line-front-space mode-line-mule-info mode-line-client mode-line-modified mode-line-remote
> 	mode-line-frame-identification
> 	mode-line-buffer-identification "   "
> 	mode-line-position
> 	(vc-mode vc-mode) mode-line-misc-info "  "
> 	mode-line-modes mode-line-end-spaces))

Thanks, I am not entirely sure I understand your setting but I just
copied in my init file and restarted emacs.

However when I open say a LaTeX file, the battery display is sill at the
end of the modeline, and therefore not visible.

I am using a freshly compiled GNU emacs from master (date 25 of April
2021).


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Re: modeline: move battery indicator as provided by (display-battery-mode)

[Joost Kremers]

On Tue, Apr 27 2021, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> (setq mode-line-format
>>       '("%e" mode-line-front-space mode-line-mule-info mode-line-client mode-line-modified mode-line-remote
>> 	mode-line-frame-identification
>> 	mode-line-buffer-identification "   "
>> 	mode-line-position
>> 	(vc-mode vc-mode) mode-line-misc-info "  "
>> 	mode-line-modes mode-line-end-spaces))
>
> Thanks, I am not entirely sure I understand your setting but I just
> copied in my init file and restarted emacs.
>
> However when I open say a LaTeX file, the battery display is sill at the
> end of the modeline, and therefore not visible.

`mode-line-format` automatically becomes buffer-local when set, so using `setq`
won't set the global value. Try `setq-default`.

The battery info is contained in `mode-line-misc-info`, you can move it around
if the above setting doesn't work for you. Note, though, that
`mode-line-misc-info` may contain more information than just the battery status,
which will get moved around as well. Moving just the battery display would be a
bit more involved.

-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments

Re: modeline: move battery indicator as provided by (display-battery-mode)

[Uwe Brauer]

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>>> "JK" == Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 27 2021, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>>> (setq mode-line-format
>>> '("%e" mode-line-front-space mode-line-mule-info mode-line-client mode-line-modified mode-line-remote
>>> mode-line-frame-identification
>>> mode-line-buffer-identification "   "
>>> mode-line-position
>>> (vc-mode vc-mode) mode-line-misc-info "  "
>>> mode-line-modes mode-line-end-spaces))
>> 
>> Thanks, I am not entirely sure I understand your setting but I just
>> copied in my init file and restarted emacs.
>> 
>> However when I open say a LaTeX file, the battery display is sill at the
>> end of the modeline, and therefore not visible.

> `mode-line-format` automatically becomes buffer-local when set, so using `setq`
> won't set the global value. Try `setq-default`.


Ok, thanks, I should have checked before asking, sorry

> The battery info is contained in `mode-line-misc-info`, you can move it around
> if the above setting doesn't work for you. Note, though, that
> `mode-line-misc-info` may contain more information than just the battery status,
> which will get moved around as well. Moving just the battery display would be a
> bit more involved.

Well I think the configuration proposed, rather satisfies my needs.
Thanks to both of you

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