From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How force evaluation of this string's math *before* print?.... Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 21:21:50 GMT Organization: Genuity, Woburn, MA Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034200559 16496 127.0.0.1 (9 Oct 2002 21:55:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:55:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17zOo9-0004Ha-00 for ; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 23:55:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17zOju-0006z5-00; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 17:51:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!paloalto-snr1.gtei.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: never X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) Originator: barmar@genuity.net (Barry Margolin) Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: /K+neWejHS79OpRR8wYdtGSVux/ZretS1s7LDHApqAnNNEiQGzV4bHjSlqNcg5rUgESgu/urL3z2!DWBz72LL8c/hbg/Q5srdW0qwZ7HIiEY34+MwcJ2DZTHjHvLh4HLew8zxOOg+Vm58KLlA3IemyhnN!I4CI2EpoppfbaQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 21:21:50 GMT Original-Distribution: world Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105888 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2435 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2435 In article , wrote: >Jesper > >Thank you so much!! I implemented your suggestion and it gave >me a column number on my mode line that indeed updates itself >as I move around my document!!! > >Can I ask you one last question? I noticed that often >the column number will *not* be updated with this >suggestion. For some reason, on some >lines, the column number is not updated when I move right and >left with the cursor until some event forces an update. >For example, when I change >line numbers that seems to force an update of the column number. >Often pressing right/left arrow *does* effect an update of >column number on modeline but not always. The :eval stuff will only be executed when Emacs thinks that something has changed that requires recomputing the mode line. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net Genuity, Woburn, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.