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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Geralt'" <usr.gentoo@googlemail.com>,
	"'Tassilo Horn'" <tassilo@member.fsf.org>,
	<kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Mode to display information in the topmost line of a window
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:19:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BEA9E09A295048E4A616C1F7126FDB9D@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fbdd0e50907310903o63d97fcbsec03936ad1734560@mail.gmail.com>

As an alternative, you might want to put the info in the mode line.
This is what I use:

(defun show-in-mode-line (text &optional buffer)
  "Display TEXT in BUFFER's mode line for 10 sec (or until user event).
Note: This sits for 10 sec or until a user event, so call this last in
a sequence of user-visible actions."
  (with-current-buffer (or buffer (current-buffer))
    (make-local-variable 'mode-line-format)
    (let ((mode-line-format  text))
     (force-mode-line-update) (sit-for 10))
    (force-mode-line-update)))





  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-31 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-30 12:38 Mode to display information in the topmost line of a window Geralt
2009-07-30 15:19 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-07-30 15:47   ` Geralt
2009-07-30 15:58     ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-30 16:00     ` Tassilo Horn
2009-07-31  4:08     ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-07-31  7:12       ` Tassilo Horn
2009-07-31 16:03         ` Geralt
2009-07-31 16:19           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-07-31 23:46             ` Geralt
2009-07-31 23:51               ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-01  9:30                 ` Geralt
2009-07-31 23:56               ` Drew Adams

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