From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: 53776@debbugs.gnu.org, goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com>
Subject: bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2022 13:52:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tudc2m3n.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iltsmzn9.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sun, 06 Feb 2022 04:39:54 +0100")
On Sun, 06 Feb 2022 04:39:54 +0100 Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
[...]
> Maybe goncholden wants to visualize alternative "submodes". That's
> possible: the :lighter can be any modeline construct so you can do
> anything here the modeline supports, e.g. using :eval. See the
> definition of `emacs-lock-mode' for an example.
>
>> An alternative, which might be easier to implement (for someone who
>> knows how, not me), would be to make the mode line horizontally
>> scrollable. But maybe that's not so easy, since it seems so obviously
>> useful, yet hasn't been implemented.
>
> It's not hard to achieve, no. But it replaces something that is too
> crowded to be useful with something scrollable that is too crowded to be
> useful. I tried it once and was very disappointed - a modeline you need
> to scroll to see everything is worse than using a help command like C-h
> m.
Nevertheless, I would be interested in trying it and seeing the code.
Can you post it?
Thanks,
Steve Berman
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2022-02-04 11:55 bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-04 13:02 ` Stephen Berman
2022-02-04 13:22 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-04 13:35 ` Stephen Berman
2022-02-04 14:05 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-04 14:38 ` Stephen Berman
2022-02-04 14:43 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-04 14:49 ` Stephen Berman
2022-02-05 6:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-06 3:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-02-06 12:52 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2022-02-06 21:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-02-06 23:13 ` Stephen Berman
2022-02-06 23:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-02-07 0:28 ` Stephen Berman
2022-02-07 0:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-02-07 22:40 ` Stephen Berman
2022-02-06 17:12 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-05 0:12 ` Phil Sainty
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