From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Mode to display information in the topmost line of a window Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:19:04 +0200 Message-ID: <87r5vyw653.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248967195 2028 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2009 15:19:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:19:55 +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 Jul 30 17:19:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MWXQ3-0007ar-4u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:19:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45658 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWXQ2-0006Ts-8T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:19:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWXPc-0006Tl-Nf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWXPY-0006QK-Js for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34106 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWXPY-0006QF-Ga for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:19:16 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37550 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWXPY-0004ih-3q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:19:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MWXPQ-0006rv-Db for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:19:08 +0000 Original-Received: from p54af1ceb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.175.28.235]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:19:08 +0000 Original-Received: from tassilo by p54af1ceb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:19:08 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54af1ceb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QgXnOSyY5nrY2ZQ7sY+nrq7bUW4= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66517 Archived-At: Geralt writes: Hi Geralt, > iirc there's a mode in Emacs to display some information in the > topmost line of a window, but I don't recall its name anymore. Do you > know what I'm talking about? Yes, but it's no mode, it's a simple variable you can set. ,----[ C-h v header-line-format RET ] | header-line-format is a variable defined in `C source code'. | Its value is nil | | Automatically becomes buffer-local when set in any fashion. | This variable is potentially risky when used as a file local variable. | | Documentation: | Analogous to `mode-line-format', but controls the header line. | The header line appears, optionally, at the top of a window; | the mode line appears at the bottom. `---- > And if yes do you know if it's possible to display ElDoc's output in > this line instead of the echo area? I guess you could redefine the function `eldoc-message' and set `header-line-format' there. Bye, Tassilo