From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gnuist006@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: customizing minibuffer and the message bar, ie mode-line Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 16:10:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <682e54d4-38b9-49ad-8e3b-0e7ab4451bdb@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429485329 2682 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2015 23:15:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 23:15:29 +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 Apr 20 01:15:28 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YjyQt-0007hJ-EH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 01:15:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51234 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjyQs-0002KA-LW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:15:22 -0400 X-Received: by 10.182.79.234 with SMTP id m10mr19970012obx.22.1429485047612; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 16:10:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.66.142 with SMTP id f14mr239278igt.17.1429485047555; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 16:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!l13no7430332iga.0!news-out.google.com!n7ni11729igk.0!nntp.google.com!l13no7430328iga.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=99.103.155.243; posting-account=REkl4woAAABFXaU7nL79XtGpnmNCQ415 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.103.155.243 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 23:10:47 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211583 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103863 Archived-At: I have a number of questions and things to do. (1) How to hide typed commands in the minibuffer or not show them. Normally, the commands are temporarily shown. Is there a way to disable it or make fg equal to bg in that area for some of the text? (2) How to make time up to the second in the message bar? (3) Whats the meaning of symbols like %%- and **- in the message bar? (4) How to make the message-bar more professional? (5) How to make the minibuffer more professional? Thanks for all your help. Bolega