From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: header-line-format hacking Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:18:26 -0500 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87pszl3772.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107189435 331 80.91.229.6 (31 Jan 2005 16:37:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:37:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 31 17:37:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CveY1-0001JO-00 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:37:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cvekl-0004z7-Pr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:50:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:d/NE8bURBTNy2F6XlmMhQ3pzfsU= Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.119.71 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1107188307 67.71.119.71 (Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:18:27 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:18:27 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128273 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23780 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23780 > Is there a recommended way to modify header-line-format? If possible, I'd > like to augment an existing value (for cases where that makes sense) > rather than override it. Grepping Emacs source, I've noticed a few places > where it's overridden but haven't found an example of modification. There are currently few uses of the header-line, and most of them seem to be "global". I.e. either it's absent, or its content does not naturally lend itself to being accompanied with some other info. Could you give a couple examples of the kind of things you'd like to put/add into the header-line? Stefan