Pinning items on the mode line

Pinning items on the mode line

[Narendra Joshi]

Hi,

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?

Best,
-- 
Narendra Joshi

Re: Pinning items on the mode line

[Emanuel Berg]

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")))
   ))

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Re: Pinning items on the mode line

[Narendra Joshi]

Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:

> 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")))
>    ))
Thanks for this. Here is my current `mode-line-format'

```
("%e" mode-line-front-space
 mode-line-mule-info
 mode-line-client
 mode-line-modified
 mode-line-remote
 mode-line-frame-identification
 mode-line-buffer-identification
 sml/pos-id-separator
 mode-line-position
 (vc-mode vc-mode)
 sml/pre-modes-separator
 mode-line-modes
 mode-line-misc-info
 mode-line-end-spaces)
```

I do not want to disturb the defaults here. I just want to make sure
that date time is always displayed even if it means truncating the other
parts. 

-- 
Narendra Joshi