Re: tilde in dired default-directory but not elsewhere

[Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

>> Now it will be interesting to see how much work is
>> required to make it work the right way for dired and
>> sudo buffers, not to mention all the "file-less"
>> modes...
>
> What use case do you have in mind?  Can you give an
> example?

Now I only speak of the mode line. I think I found a
way. First, define it for example like this (possibly
add some more, later).

(setq    column-number-mode  nil)
(setq    line-number-mode    nil)
(defvar  show-modified       t)
(defvar  show-path           t)
(defvar  show-modes          nil)

(setq-default mode-line-format
   `(" "
     (show-modified mode-line-modified)
     " "
     (show-path (:eval (abbreviate-file-name (buffer-file-name)) ))
     " "
     (show-modes mode-line-modes)
     (line-number-mode   "[%l] ")
     (column-number-mode "{%c}")
     ))

For the modes that should show different stuff, simply
change those variables (show-path etc.) locally.
     
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