From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Modify the mode line Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:56:33 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137628582 7352 80.91.229.2 (18 Jan 2006 23:56:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:56:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 19 00:56:19 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EzN9W-0002nl-KS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:55:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EzNBv-0001a3-Vz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:58:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EzMIE-00005F-6x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:00:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EzMIA-0008UV-M3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:00:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EzMGz-0007pp-Qh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:59:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1EzMKv-0000vQ-Ec for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:03:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EzMER-0005Kh-Dn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:56:47 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:56:47 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:56:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: 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:32730 Archived-At: luca.spinacci@selex-comms.com wrote: > I would like to insert in the mode line some information (for instance > a variable string like the name of current buffer) and update the > information for each opened buffer. > I read the info for mode-line-format but being a poor programmer I > still haven't found a good solution. (setq mode-line-format (cons "a constant string" mode-line-format)) (setq a-variable "a variable string") (setq mode-line-format (cons '(:eval a-variable) mode-line-format)) -- Kevin Rodgers (setq mode-line-format (cdr mode-line-format))