Re: From mode-line-format to string?

[Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>]

Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com> writes:
> ;;; Description:
> ;;;
> ;;; Emacs doesn't provide distinct functions for (1) generating a string
> ;;; from `mode-line-format' and (2) displaying it in the mode line.  In
> ;;; src/xdisp.c, display_mode_element() does both, and it doesn't have a
> ;;; Lisp binding.

Note that the CVS version of emacs now provides a lisp-callable
function for this, `format-mode-line':

   format-mode-line is a built-in function.
   (format-mode-line &optional FORMAT WINDOW NO-PROPS)

   Return the mode-line of selected window as a string.
   First optional arg FORMAT specifies a different format string (see
   `mode-line-format' for details) to use.  If FORMAT is t, return
   the buffer's header-line.  Second optional arg WINDOW specifies a
   different window to use as the context for the formatting.
   If third optional arg NO-PROPS is non-nil, string is not propertized.

-Miles
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