Re: lots of information in Modeline

[jpkotta <jpkotta@gmail.com>]

On Mar 10, 2:50 am, Kiwon Um <um.ki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear emacs users:
>
> Sometimes, the text on modeline are too long so they are truncated.
> Since some text contains important information like new message in
> gnus, I'm wondering how to show the long text on modeline well.
>
> The following is a list what I though:
> 1. scrolling modeline
> 2. two-or-more rows' modeline
>
> Is their any way to do those things or better suggestion?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kiwon Um

There's diminish.el, which hides minor mode indicators.  In the
comments of diminish.el, it says you can set the major mode indicator
with (setq mode-name "some string").

I would really like to see a multirow modeline too, especially if it
was only on the selected window.