Conditional Mode Line Background

Conditional Mode Line Background

[Florian Beck]

If you wanted to display the mode line of any window where
`window-dedicated-p' is set in, say, »light blue«, how would you do that? 
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Florian Beck

Re: Conditional Mode Line Background

[Andreas Politz]

Florian Beck wrote:
> If you wanted to display the mode line of any window where
> `window-dedicated-p' is set in, say, »light blue«, how would you do that? 


(setq mode-line-format
       '(:eval (let ((ml (concat
			 (format-mode-line
			  (default-value 'mode-line-format))
			 "%-")))	;dashes seem to get lost
		(if (window-dedicated-p (selected-window))
		    (propertize ml 'face '(:background "blue"))
		  ml))))


I don't know how to detect (in)activeness, but would be interested to find
out.

-ap