From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Conditional Mode Line Background Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:39:54 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1229899260.417173@arno.fh-trier.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229902871 16720 80.91.229.12 (21 Dec 2008 23:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:41:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 22 00:42:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LEXvz-00041O-UD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:42:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53106 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LEXun-0000lM-Bd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:40:53 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1229899312 5929 143.93.54.11 (21 Dec 2008 22:41:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:41:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-088-068-198-136.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165563 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:60894 Archived-At: Florian Beck wrote: > If you wanted to display the mode line of any window where > `window-dedicated-p' is set in, say, »light blue«, how would you do that? (setq mode-line-format '(:eval (let ((ml (concat (format-mode-line (default-value 'mode-line-format)) "%-"))) ;dashes seem to get lost (if (window-dedicated-p (selected-window)) (propertize ml 'face '(:background "blue")) ml)))) I don't know how to detect (in)activeness, but would be interested to find out. -ap