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From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Indicator in mode-line
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:21:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CMvTXPsHzWH37aii8QZAbKEkoGvmP59fpiInvaNZjMOm3L-8OKZYUcz8ktf3VJWKrE2WAuXtqXGmn1qLQHkHK3jPOru2gqiNCNXzR4ojX5g=@protonmail.com> (raw)
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To update the mode-line I have been setting up global-mode-string

(setq act "Test")
(push '("" act) global-mode-string)
(force-mode-line-update) 

But executing the above has not changed the mode-line.


------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, November 24th, 2022 at 12:52 AM, Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:


> I want to issue some indicator to the mode-line when some condition happens (error,
> warning, notification).
> 
> I can add things to the mode-line is the following way.
> 
> (setq mode-line-format (list "Indc " mode-line-format))
> (force-mode-line-update)
> 
> But also require a way for the user to acknowledge the indicator
> and be able to switch the indicator off - returning the mode-line
> as original.
> 
> What kind of indications would work well in getting user attention?
>



  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-24 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-24  0:52 Indicator in mode-line Heime
2022-11-24 14:21 ` Heime [this message]
2022-11-25 20:25   ` John Haman
2022-11-27  2:34   ` Heime

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