From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: help needed with gnus mode-line
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:23:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxgxn6tz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy60igeoj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:23:51 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Try (window-buffer (minibuffer-selected-window)) ;-)
Yes, of course, thanks ;-)
> Of course, minibuffer-selected-window is not quite right either: you
> don't want to modify the mode-line of the buffer from where the M-: was
> typed, but the mode-line that's right above the minibuffer (which
> doesn't even exist in minibuffer-only frames).
Right, i didn't find how to get safely the window right above
minibuffer.
> No, the problem is that if you don't switch to the other buffer, your
> let binding will change the mode-line-format value in the minibuffer and
> since the minibuffer basically never sets this value buffer-locally it
> means it changes (temporarily) the default value of mode-line-format,
> i.e. it changes the value of mode-line-format for all buffers that
> haven't set it buffer-locally (i.e. all buffers except Gnus buffers and
> a few other ones).
Right.
> If you have several windows, you should see that your mode-line message
> appears in pretty much all mode lines rather than only the one next to
> the minibuffer (tho calling force-mode-line-update with a nil may be
> sufficient to restrict the change to the window(s) that show this buffer
> in many cases).
Thanks for all these explanations.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-01 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-30 11:52 help needed with gnus mode-line Thierry Volpiatto
2011-06-30 12:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-06-30 12:35 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-06-30 13:15 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-06-30 15:01 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-06-30 20:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-01 7:25 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-07-01 16:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-01 19:23 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2011-07-04 15:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-04 19:00 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-07-01 19:23 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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2011-06-30 11:52 Thierry Volpiatto
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