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John Laiosa <jlaiosa@draper.com> writes:
> 1) Change the back ground and fore ground colors.  Right now I have a black
> back ground for the windows so the Mode Line itself does not appear, but
> just the characters on the line.

See the face: mode-line-face

M-x customize-face RET mode-line RET
 

> 2.) I want to add the full path as it appears in the buffer list so I know
> what directory the file came from.

See the variable: default-mode-line-format 


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