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From: Wes James <comptekki@gmail.com>
To: "Johan Bockgård" <bojohan+news@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How can I put display-time to the right of the mode line?
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:17:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFjCMHv2V8g6H_5xOwoKDNB1VXTmC8gFK=zp=77JQY7WzShvsA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761qvxeub.fsf@gnu.org>

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Johan Bockgård <bojohan+news@gnu.org>wrote:

> Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there a way to have some information in the mode line, in my case the
> > time showed by display-time, to be at all the way to the right of the
> > mode line?
>
> Try something like
>
>   (display-time)
>   (setq global-mode-string (remove 'display-time-string
> global-mode-string))
>   (setq mode-line-end-spaces
>         (list (propertize " " 'display '(space :align-to (- right 12)))
>               'display-time-string))
>

I put this in to scratch buffer and then did M-x eval-buffer, but I don't
see any change.  What am I missing?

Thanks,

-wes


  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-11 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-11  8:54 How can I put display-time to the right of the mode line? Alan Schmitt
2013-12-11 15:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-12 20:43   ` Alan Schmitt
2013-12-11 21:22 ` Johan Bockgård
2013-12-11 22:17   ` Wes James [this message]
2013-12-11 22:48   ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-11 23:08     ` Johan Bockgård
2013-12-11 23:14       ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-13 21:07         ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-14 17:14         ` Rusi
2013-12-14 17:33           ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-15  5:33             ` Rusi
2013-12-11 23:16       ` Wes James
2013-12-12 20:44   ` Alan Schmitt

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