From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Pinning items on the mode line Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 03:05:19 +0100 Message-ID: <86zi7j10rk.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87a7zj732h.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511057990 31711 195.159.176.226 (19 Nov 2017 02:19:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 02:19:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 19 03:19:43 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eGFCt-0007fJ-4A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 03:19:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51675 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGFD0-0001SW-Cu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:19:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56167) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGFCL-0001SJ-M5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:19:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGFCK-0000A6-Ol for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:19:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=39553 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGFCK-00009M-Hd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:19:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eGF3d-0008K9-IH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 03:10:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:5mzddII8Cgp9q49ZCKh+NmchSBI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114965 Archived-At: Narendra Joshi wrote: > I would like to have `eyebrowse` workspaces > and date time always visible on the mode > line. Currently, when the other parts of the > mode line occupy more space, they are push > out of the visible region, e.g. while using > Gnus. Is there a simple way to achieve what > I want? You can have whatever mode line you want. Here is a config with a blank mode line for every mode, except for the Buffer-menu-mode, where the time is shown. Go nuts :) (setq-default mode-line-format `(" " (:eval (when (eq major-mode 'Buffer-menu-mode) (format-time-string " %H:%M"))) )) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573