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: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:55:20 -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 1430269228 26773 80.91.229.3 (29 Apr 2015 01:00:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 01:00:28 +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 Apr 29 03:00:20 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 1YnGMN-0006Q2-R8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:00:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36360 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnGMN-00039j-1B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43892) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnGMC-00038s-P5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:00:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnGM9-0002AC-18 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:00:08 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56705) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnGM8-000298-RD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YnGM6-0006De-Px for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:00:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 76-10-168-214.dsl.teksavvy.com ([76.10.168.214]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:00:02 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 76-10-168-214.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:00:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76-10-168-214.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bABf7RHXFBlGoYb9ZyPDpFdud90= 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:104057 Archived-At: >> Sweet, Stefan. ... even though it's that simple, yet >> does the job. > You mean BECAUSE it is that simple :) FWIW, in my setup (i.e. with a separate minibuffer-only frame), the minibuffer-line is not always displayed when it should. There's probably some code somewhere in the C code of Emacs which just clears the minibuffer instead of actually displaying the contents of *Minibuf-0* as it should. Stefan