From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customizing the mode line Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:30:45 +0200 Message-ID: <831vkjeiui.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83skd1dta0.fsf@gnu.org> <837huberca.fsf@gnu.org> <87639vr6y4.fsf@benthic.rattlesnake.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256999477 31503 80.91.229.12 (31 Oct 2009 14:31:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bob@gnu.org (Robert J. Chassell) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 31 15:31:09 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 1N4Eyz-0006iw-08 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:31:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50840 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4Eyy-0004BY-2p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:31:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4Eyt-0004BP-1o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:31:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4Eyn-0004As-OI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:31:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50026 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4Eyn-0004Ap-Ii for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:30:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:49870) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N4Eyk-0007NG-Ml; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KSD00400UYT7N00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:30:45 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.37.193]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KSD0017GUZ8TFA0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:30:45 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87639vr6y4.fsf@benthic.rattlesnake.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:116508 Archived-At: > From: bob@gnu.org (Robert J. Chassell) > Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:09:23 +0000 > Cc: bob@gnu.org > > > I don't think that a better UI for customizing the mode line is a > > really important place to improve. Customizing it is not that hard to do. > > ??? Really? Then please describe how to do that. > > I have the following in my .emacs file and am not as good a programmer as > Eli Zaretski: That's just a copy of what bindings.el has, with some changes. It may be suited for .emacs, when you want to change the mode line once and for all. What I was after were _user_options_ that can be set for when I want to change the mode-line appearance temporarily.