From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: How to handle overfilled mode line?
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:57:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eg5uf9$j84$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160064940.678842.6540@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
robert.thorpe@antenova.com wrote:
> Tassilo Horn wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> my mode line is overly filled with much useful informations from
>> different modes like circe, emms, etc. If the buffer name is a littlebit
>> longer, it doesn't fit on my screen anymore.
>>
>> How can I handle this? Is there a solution like a multi-line mode line,
>> or a mode line which scrolls like many mp3 players do?
>
> What a painful problem, I can think of no good solution.
How about writing a command to temporarily display the entire mode line,
using something like
(tooltip-show (format-mode-line mode-line-format t))
or
(message-box "%s" (format-mode-line mode-line-format t))
Ideally it would preserve the mode line face, though.
--
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-06 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-04 22:42 How to handle overfilled mode line? Tassilo Horn
2006-10-05 15:18 ` rgb
2006-10-05 16:15 ` robert.thorpe
2006-10-05 17:15 ` Tassilo Horn
2006-10-05 18:42 ` Chris F.A. Johnson
2006-10-05 19:08 ` Tassilo Horn
2006-10-05 19:50 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2006-10-05 22:16 ` Reiner Steib
2006-10-06 12:13 ` Tassilo Horn
2006-10-06 13:39 ` Kim F. Storm
[not found] ` <mailman.7811.1160142023.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-06 14:17 ` Tassilo Horn
2006-10-06 15:57 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.7822.1160150374.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-06 18:49 ` Tassilo Horn
2006-10-05 16:58 ` Michaël Cadilhac
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