From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Q Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: combining echo area and modeline Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:41:00 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440690948 5306 80.91.229.3 (27 Aug 2015 15:55:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:55:48 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 27 17:55:34 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ZUzWW-00048y-PC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:55:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43274 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUzWW-0003Vh-5f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:55:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38985) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUzWS-0003VY-7M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:55:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUzWK-0007Xx-NR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:55:25 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43420) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUzWK-0007XT-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:55:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUzW3-0003mI-Kd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:55:03 +0200 Original-Received: from D149.N116.queensu.ca ([130.15.116.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:55:03 +0200 Original-Received: from godblessfq by D149.N116.queensu.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:55:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 130.15.116.149 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Iceweasel/31.2.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:189224 Archived-At: Hello everyone, Maximize the editing area can be very desirable on netbooks and phones. In most of the times the echo area is blank, and the information on the modeline is glanced only once in a while. I am wondering if the modeline info can be displayed in the echo area whenever there is no message? Or if a hook can be added for detecting echo area changes? There is a stackexchange question on this http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/7563/make-use-of-an-empty-echo-area-to-display-information Thank you for your consideration! Q