Re: Emacs mode for GDB - 2 questions

[Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es>]

On Fri, 31 May 2002 15:27:39 -0600 (MDT), Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> This leads to a further idea.  Suppose that every mode line (and every
> header line) were actually a separate window, and formatting of mode
> line elements was done by converting them into text in a buffer.

That would be really useful. On one hand, because it'd be easier to do
some things with the modeline, in the sense that now to do fancy things
you have to resort to :exec and do fancy tricks, etc., while with your
proposed method all full power of elisp buffer/string manipulation would
be at user's (or module's writer's) hands. On the other, because that
would make mode-line information (like current line / column) far easier
to use from a module.


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