From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Removing line and column number settings from some buffers Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:24:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87tut2a2xg.fsf@web.de> References: <87mtyv6h50.fsf@zoho.eu> <875z5j6b4c.fsf@zoho.eu> <87sg8mbkpt.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11640"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:1jXqr+Lwk2YzvZk0allsTNap47s= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 00:24:54 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kkxy2-0002wp-ON for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:24:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33218 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kkxy1-00057y-Pm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:24:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54044) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kkxxj-00057n-Fl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:24:35 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:38638 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kkxxi-0003Kk-1g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:24:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kkxxf-0002c1-C8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:24:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125929 Archived-At: daniela-spit@gmx.it writes: > Got it, thank you. > > Am also trying to see what is what. When I removed some of the options, > the mode line still remained the same. Some elements only display something under certain circumstances. Another thing is that mode-line-format "Automatically becomes buffer-local when set." If you want to see an effect nearly everywhere, you must change the default value of the symbol. Some modes don't use the default mode-line display but implement an own one so these would not be affected (when changing the default). Or modify the variables that represent parts of the mode-line and have their own variable. This is often the better alternative for global mode-line config, in my experience. Regards, Michael.