From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 08:49:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h9s7hd7a.fsf@debian.uxu> <87383qvoi4.fsf@debian.uxu> <874mo6bgzx.fsf@debian.uxu> <20150424141319.GA19093@tuxteam.de> <831tj9zizy.fsf@gnu.org> <87ioclo9p5.fsf@yale.edu> <83wq11xyiu.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9s3havb.fsf@yale.edu> <83bnibx7wy.fsf@gnu.org> <871tj4xhhe.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430916595 10442 80.91.229.3 (6 May 2015 12:49:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 12:49:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 06 14:49:45 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ypylk-0005x7-LH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 May 2015 14:49:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44765 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ypylj-0007oe-QM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 May 2015 08:49:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52761) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpylT-0007oT-KQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2015 08:49:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpylP-000849-Q2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2015 08:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpylP-00083f-Hq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2015 08:49:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YpylM-0005iM-Gh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2015 14:49:20 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-165-139-108.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.139.108]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 May 2015 14:49:20 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-139-108.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 May 2015 14:49:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-139-108.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FkHZ1x/Ui9SfBxlM5JVuWZI2fkY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104243 Archived-At: > `((space :align-to > (- right > (length ,string))))) If you look at the documentation for the display property, and more specifically for the `space' specifications, you'll see that the HPOS element can be of the form: EXPR ::= NUM | (NUM) | UNIT | ELEM | POS | IMAGE | FORM NUM ::= INTEGER | FLOAT | SYMBOL UNIT ::= in | mm | cm | width | height ELEM ::= left-fringe | right-fringe | left-margin | right-margin | scroll-bar | text POS ::= left | center | right FORM ::= (NUM . EXPR) | (OP EXPR ...) OP ::= + | - So, as you can see, there is no "(length EXP)" form in there.So you need to use ,(length string) instead of (length ,string) -- Stefan