Re: Images, display-time, modeline

[Glenn Morris <rgm+news@stanford.edu>]

Amy Templeton wrote:

>> What's the value of display-time-string-forms
>
> ((if 
>      (and (not display-time-format) display-time-day-and-date) 
>      (format-time-string "%a %b %e " now) "") 
>  (format-time-string 
>   (or display-time-format 
>       (if display-time-24hr-format 
> 	  "%H:%M" 
> 	"%-I:%M%p")))
>  (if mail 
>      (concat " " 
> 	     (propertize
> 	      "Mail" ... ... ... "mouse-2: Read mail" ... ...))
>    ""))

As shown there, that seems to be missing a few pieces, but probably
should not read too much into that.

> Incidentally, what do all the ...'s mean? They don't seem to be
> either a function or a variable.

Just that the printing was truncated. Probably see
eval-expression-print-level, eval-expression-print-length.

>> (insert (propertize "foo" 'display display-time-mail-icon))
>
> It inserts the icon!

OK, so try: (put 'display-time-string 'risky-local-variable t)

though you should not need to. Do you have this problem with:

emacs -q --no-site-file \
  --eval '(progn (setq display-time-use-mail-icon t) (display-time-mode 1))'

when you have mail?