From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestions for mode-line-format changes Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 00:52:06 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208280652.g7S6q6X13264@wijiji.santafe.edu> References: <5xk7mlfsvf.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <874rdl357r.fsf@wesley.springies.com> <5xhehiwlok.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <87ptw6y1li.fsf@wesley.springies.com> <5xlm6tncpm.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200208262151.g7QLpSk12752@wijiji.santafe.edu> <5xd6s4u083.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030517888 4035 127.0.0.1 (28 Aug 2002 06:58:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 06:58:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ats@acm.org, billw@wolfram.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17jwmD-00012n-00 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:58:05 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17jxHt-0003ha-00 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:30:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17jwnY-0006DE-00; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 02:59:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17jwgV-0004vo-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 02:52:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17jwgS-0004uy-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 02:52:09 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17jwgR-0004uX-00; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 02:52:07 -0400 Original-Received: from wijiji.santafe.edu (wijiji [192.12.12.5]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7S6qX516375; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 00:52:33 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by wijiji.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) id g7S6q6X13264; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 00:52:06 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: wijiji.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@wijiji using -f Original-To: storm@cua.dk In-Reply-To: <5xd6s4u083.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:7025 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7025 Any ideas/pointers to how one can easily right-align text in a (mini-buffer) window? You could calculate its width, subtract that from the total frame width, and indent that much. As Miles reminded us, this would be a kind of echo area display--nothing to do with the minibuffer. When the minibuffer is active, this text will not appear. The minibuffer is displayed as an ordinary buffer, displayed in a buffer, so there is no special code for displaying it. There is special code for displaying the echo area.