From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jpkotta Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: lots of information in Modeline Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:36:02 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272992438 14691 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 17:00:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:00:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 19:00:38 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9LTz-0000KX-QF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 19:00:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59910 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9LTz-0004bV-Ec for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 13:00:31 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z11g2000yqz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.122.85.37 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1268418963 5061 127.0.0.1 (12 Mar 2010 18:36:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z11g2000yqz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.122.85.37; posting-account=EwI0QQoAAADdqmqX_mVfawBNtwyks2YE User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.10,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177442 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72959 Archived-At: On Mar 10, 2:50=A0am, Kiwon Um 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.