Re: Removing line and column number settings from some buffers

[daniela-spit@gmx.it]

> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2020 at 12:24 AM
> From: "Michael Heerdegen" <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Removing line and column number settings from some buffers
>
> daniela-spit@gmx.it writes:
>
> > Got it, thank you.
> >
> > Am also trying to see what is what.  When I removed some of the options,
> > the mode line still remained the same.
>
> Some elements only display something under certain circumstances.
>
> Another thing is that mode-line-format "Automatically becomes
> buffer-local when set."  If you want to see an effect nearly everywhere,
> you must change the default value of the symbol.  Some modes don't use
> the default mode-line display but implement an own one so these would
> not be affected (when changing the default).
>
> Or modify the variables that represent parts of the mode-line and have
> their own variable.  This is often the better alternative for global
> mode-line config, in my experience.

Yes, modifying variables representing parts of mode-line helped
me get somewhere.

> Regards,
>
> Michael.
>
>
>