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: Mode to display information in the topmost line of a window Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:08:32 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87r5vyw653.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249013353 27986 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2009 04:09:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:09:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 31 06:09:06 2009 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 4.50) id 1MWjQX-00084o-Di for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:09:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59281 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWjQW-0006dB-UI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:09:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWjQC-0006cV-7M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:08:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWjQ7-0006Ux-Il for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:08:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41104 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWjQ7-0006Ug-FI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:08:39 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:56478 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWjQ7-0000lI-DQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:08:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MWjPz-0003Qd-Ef for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:08:31 +0000 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:08:31 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:08:31 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:66552 Archived-At: Geralt wrote: > What's the prefered way to overwrite a function? Just putting this one > into .emacs? Don't overwrite it, so that you don't have to track changes to its implementation: (defadvice eldoc-message (after header-line-format activate) "If `eldoc-last-message' is non-nil, set `header-line-format'." (when eldoc-last-message (setq header-line-format 'eldoc-last-message) (force-mode-line-update))) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA