format-mode-line function

format-mode-line function

[Tim X]

I have a problem with a "missing" function and wanted to get some
feedback from others on the group. 

I'm using a package which uses the function format-mode-line. This
works with emacs 22, but I get a void function error with emacs 21. On
checking the emacs NEWS file, it indicates this function has been in
emacs since emacs 21.1. I have emacs 21.4, but the function does not
seem to exist. I'm running Debian with the Debian build of emacs 21
from 2005. 

I am wondering if this is a function that has somehow been lost with
mods applied by Debian as I cannot find anything wrong with my
environment. 

Could a few people running version 21 of emacs please check if they
have the function and post their results together with the output from
emacs-version? 

thanks,

Tim
-- 
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au

Re: format-mode-line function

[martin]

 >>>>> Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:

8<--------------------------------------------------------------------

 > On checking the emacs NEWS file, it indicates this function has
 > been in emacs since emacs 21.1. I have emacs 21.4, but the function
 > does not seem to exist. I'm running Debian with the Debian build of
 > emacs 21 from 2005.
 > 
 > I am wondering if this is a function that has somehow been lost
 > with mods applied by Debian as I cannot find anything wrong with my
 > environment.
 > 
 > Could a few people running version 21 of emacs please check if they
 > have the function and post their results together with the output
 > from emacs-version?

8<--------------------------------------------------------------------

GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2003-03-28 on buffy:

Couldn't find format-mode-line there

Martin
-- 
parozusa at web dot de

Re: format-mode-line function

[Tim X]

martin <nospam@nospam.net> writes:

>  >>>>> Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
>
> 8<--------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  > On checking the emacs NEWS file, it indicates this function has
>  > been in emacs since emacs 21.1. I have emacs 21.4, but the function
>  > does not seem to exist. I'm running Debian with the Debian build of
>  > emacs 21 from 2005.
>  > 
>  > I am wondering if this is a function that has somehow been lost
>  > with mods applied by Debian as I cannot find anything wrong with my
>  > environment.
>  > 
>  > Could a few people running version 21 of emacs please check if they
>  > have the function and post their results together with the output
>  > from emacs-version?
>
> 8<--------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2003-03-28 on buffy:
>
> Couldn't find format-mode-line there
>
> Martin
> -- 
> parozusa at web dot de

Thanks.

Its looking more and more like format-mode-line is not in emacs 21 and
that the reference to it in the version 22 NEWS file is a typo (it
seems emacs 21.1 was released some months prior to the entry in the
CVS changeLog according to an e-mail I recieved from someone else).

Tim

-- 
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au

Re: format-mode-line function

[Kevin Rodgers]

Tim X wrote:
> I have a problem with a "missing" function and wanted to get some
> feedback from others on the group. 
> 
> I'm using a package which uses the function format-mode-line. This
> works with emacs 22, but I get a void function error with emacs 21. On
> checking the emacs NEWS file, it indicates this function has been in
> emacs since emacs 21.1. I have emacs 21.4, but the function does not
> seem to exist. I'm running Debian with the Debian build of emacs 21
> from 2005. 
> 
> I am wondering if this is a function that has somehow been lost with
> mods applied by Debian as I cannot find anything wrong with my
> environment. 
> 
> Could a few people running version 21 of emacs please check if they
> have the function and post their results together with the output from
> emacs-version? 

Try apply-mode-line-format.el in Emacs 21:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-emacs-sources/2005-06/msg00000.html

-- 
Kevin