From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to debug this problem? Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 01:10:35 +0100 Message-ID: <20a0c1020909041710j216381cbj313e4400ce02a940@mail.gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252109456 23179 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2009 00:10:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 00:10:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 05 02:10:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mjirg-0007oC-Id for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:10:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52956 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mjirf-0000nU-50 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mjira-0000nP-PZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:10:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MjirW-0000n1-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:10:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35364 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MjirW-0000my-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:10:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f226.google.com ([209.85.220.226]:62144) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjirV-0002Zb-Tf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:10:38 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm26 with SMTP id 26so1066273fxm.42 for ; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:10:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=dfbguA91FkVmT4qcVk057wbf0+16T0HD3FkNanz0iNA=; b=rFxpEeSGFVaqtnv+ZcbQW57VrrxKmeQy5c+Kc3eXcXEDnqJGGBVWtGu5RLSPWJTRqE fEu5aGclKZkowEoBVY0aGy5CoAGVApiGplb8l40cIaqWL1rlknNLDEdGNygQja6Qgh9j nLsyuImDLvAopsYApJ90zHvyiOUD7xJnIlGmw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Sx4korkLDygjmzfdpNiSx0l0DH7oApjEbsamHl+Swz6pevXK0CY2T66gV2ruXfuc98 5pQ9y+F4QIIErSpy6rMDx0JBpNClY3wwhDLVqaW71tz9cxjHTU9LUKCwYw2NEI9EfNcj vTZEldB65YVqxRaqf8uCFyx4hYIVvlDu7n8xA= Original-Received: by 10.103.84.15 with SMTP id m15mr4989315mul.105.1252109435804; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:10:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:115037 Archived-At: 2009/9/4 Stefan Monnier : >> On an Emacs started last night, at the moment overwrite-mode does not >> show the lighter but visual-line-mode does. The values of the two >> variables are as follows. > > [...] >> minor-mode alist: > [...] >> (overwrite-mode overwrite-mode) > > This says that the text to display in the mode-line is contained in the > variable `overwrite-mode'. So, what's the value of `overwrite-mode' > when you expect something to be displayed? overwrite-mode is a variable defined in `C source code'. Its value is overwrite-mode-textual Local in buffer *scratch*; global value is nil but still no lighter in the mode line. > Stefan