From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to handle overfilled mode line? Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:57:47 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <87lknvzorb.fsf@baldur.nicundtas.de> <1160064940.678842.6540@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160150409 20174 80.91.229.2 (6 Oct 2006 16:00:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:00:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 06 18:00:08 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVs70-0008VY-Er for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:59:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVs70-0002Mh-3m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:59:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GVs6m-0002M8-V0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:59:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GVs6k-0002LP-EJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:59:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVs6k-0002LB-B3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:59:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GVsDe-0006PW-Hp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:06:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GVs6G-0008KA-T8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:59:01 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:59:00 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:59:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: <1160064940.678842.6540@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37849 Archived-At: 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