From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Keep global-mode-string on its own "modeline"? Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 09:59:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83r0yri08v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87czabzmuk.fsf@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5790"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thuna Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 29 09:11:33 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oog0D-0001KV-JH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2022 09:11:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oofzE-0005Tx-ME; Sat, 29 Oct 2022 03:10:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oofoJ-0008Lq-8o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2022 02:59:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oofoJ-0005qN-0Q; Sat, 29 Oct 2022 02:59:15 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=iMwflZWCrzpbZHDR9a/jAtObHzi8Y6bKTlTCkZyejME=; b=IJDz/DadUrFO rvIxzFS2dnXd87xI1TF0kCmi5AnCZpTdWaK8sXQ0FkBvkAb0O+fvoAmL6mZxHeDcAuhDEqz+KHaNF cNqNfJ80M77Z9kTZcB8OvwVE2NM9CzQci4lSDjXWjVNhh19YrGfrZglVP7i3NqOrmP3fPcTtxmpjd zkrM2xnvSNVyh7fo9BaSb/Kq9/PlTXJX5933aeOTkkYDyp3sh+URq86MW50WbcfAtrxAZh9lA9vTf rjrNFy5d2epPVdCPzGXz+84p+aP6gC2UcamiWyDimqW8/LwQ0ilS7mTO+5LlzDYznT5lJuAQcWWKX wOtgaomlyyBc35uEvJ30oQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oofoI-0002jn-EG; Sat, 29 Oct 2022 02:59:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87czabzmuk.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Thuna on Fri, 28 Oct 2022 22:58:59 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:298729 Archived-At: > From: Thuna > Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 22:58:59 +0200 > > There is no good reason for `global-mode-string' to be displayed in > every single window's modeline separately, it takes a lot of space, and > it usually ends up not completely showing when the window is split more > than once. Would it not be better to keep it in a different location? > It makes sense (to me) to have it at the top of each Emacs frame, > although I'm open to suggestions. We have frame-title-format, which can be customized in the same manner as mode-line-format. So you could already do this in your sessions, if that is what you like. Or are you saying that you already tried to use frame-title-format and it didn't work? In that case, please tell the details.