From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "A.Politz" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: lots of information in Modeline Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:13:55 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <702e3245-eaf2-4369-9ab6-f6819437ca09@15g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272993143 17853 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 17:12:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:12:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 19:12:22 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9LfP-000746-OZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 19:12:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50983 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9LfP-00052r-51 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 13:12:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!15g2000yqi.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.59.105.39 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1268471635 24836 127.0.0.1 (13 Mar 2010 09:13:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:13:55 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 15g2000yqi.googlegroups.com; posting-host=84.59.105.39; posting-account=Cb0eCQoAAADOp8Qt5mU0s83Gs6qJzY70 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091123 Iceweasel/3.5.6 (like Firefox/3.5.6; Debian-3.5.6-1) (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177453 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:72970 Archived-At: On Mar 10, 9:50=A0am, Kiwon Um wrote: > Dear emacs users: > > Sometimes, the text on modeline are too long so they are truncated. > Since some text contains important information like new message in > gnus, I'm wondering how to show the long text on modeline well. > > The following is a list what I though: > 1. scrolling modeline > 2. two-or-more rows' modeline > > Is their any way to do those things or better suggestion? > > Thanks. > > Kiwon Um 1. Since the mode-line can be computed dynamically and updated at will with a timer, it can be done. But scrolling column-wise at a decent rate shure looks ugly. (setq mode-line-format '(:eval (funcall (lambda nil (concat (make-string (% (cadr (current-time)) (window-width)) #x20) "A mode-line that can scroll."))))) (setq tm (run-with-timer 0 1 'force-mode-line-update)) (cancel-timer tm) 2. Maybe with an overlay, otherwise no. 3. Use a header-line or tool-tips. -ap