From: Tim Cross <tcross@nospam.une.edu.au>
Subject: Re: How make this modeline item be recalculated more often?
Date: 10 Oct 2002 12:33:52 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ofa33tv3.fsf@blind-bat.une.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1034163501.17035.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
seberino@spawar.navy.mil writes:
> (setq default-mode-line-format (list ""
> 'mode-line-buffer-identification
> " "
> (system-name)
> " "
> '(:eval (format "%s" (+ (string-to-int "%c") 1)))
> "Line %l Col %c"))
>
> I've been playing with adding one to column number in modeline and
> came up with the eval element above....
>
> It evaluates to a 1 when column in zero but it is not updated
> when I change the columns!?!?!? How make it be reevaluated
> when %c changes???
>
I vaguely remember seeing something about this in one of the documents
which comes with emacs - check the FAQ, NEWS and PROBLEMS files -
sorry I can't be more specific - it was a little while ago and the
memory just aint what it use to be.
Also, make sure you have
(column-number-mode t)
somewhere in your .emacs file.
Tim
next parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-10 2:33 UTC|newest]
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2002-10-10 2:33 ` Tim Cross [this message]
2002-10-11 12:24 ` How make this modeline item be recalculated more often? Colin Marquardt
2002-10-11 18:11 ` seberino
[not found] ` <mailman.1034359998.21370.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-14 8:40 ` Colin Marquardt
2002-10-09 11:37 seberino
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