From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: customizing minibuffer and the message bar, ie mode-line Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 01:33:04 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87a8y3vglr.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <682e54d4-38b9-49ad-8e3b-0e7ab4451bdb@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429486221 15005 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2015 23:30:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 23:30:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 20 01:30:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YjyfL-0000kM-4i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 01:30:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51263 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjyfK-0005z7-CP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:30:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.etla.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:bIPErvejWaiZv2g/ISkAxHorxVE= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211586 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103867 Archived-At: gnuist006@gmail.com writes: > (3) Whats the meaning of symbols like %%- and **- in > the message bar? By "message bar", do you mean the mode line? Anyway, this kind of information is easy to look up in the Emacs manual. Google it (your question) or use the info system: C-h i m Emacs RET But: %% = read-only buffer ** = modified (but not saved) buffer > (4) How to make the message-bar more professional? What do you mean by "professional"? Do you mean like this: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/pics/bars.png Suffice to say, you can get it to look the way you want. But it seems you don't have much Emacs experience. In particular, if you don't even know what the information is, how can you tell what should be there and what shouldn't? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573