From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Customizing the modeline Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 14:13:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87r3veej96.fsf@web.de> References: <87zja4anlx.fsf@free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420118057 25574 80.91.229.3 (1 Jan 2015 13:14:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 13:14:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 01 14:14:10 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6fZp-0005oM-Dy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2015 14:14:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48607 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6fZo-0001ge-Js for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2015 08:14:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58740) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6fZe-0001gY-1O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2015 08:13:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6fZa-0003mJ-Sv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2015 08:13:57 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57194) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6fZa-0003l7-Lh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2015 08:13:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6fZZ-0005bw-S4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2015 14:13:53 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-23-243.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.23.243]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jan 2015 14:13:53 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-23-243.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jan 2015 14:13:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-23-243.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4nP2Dl4cjnx2eond2TeB/9YB6Yc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101822 Archived-At: Julien Cubizolles writes: > I'd like to display the track currently played my mpd in the > modeline. What would be the easiest way to just add the output of > > mpc current -f "[[%artist%] %title%]" > > for example? You probably don't wan to run this command every time the mode-line is recalculated (which can be quite frequently). Do you control mpc from within Emacs? Michael.