Re: Inserting string to start of mode-line via change in mode-line-format

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022 at 9:41 AM
> From: "Heime" <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> To: "Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Inserting string to start of mode-line via change in mode-line-format
>
> Wanting to insert a string (act) in the beginning of the mode-line, mode-line-format was
> modified as follows.  But I am not getting the string printed.  What am I doing wrong here?
> 
>     (setq-default mode-line-format
> 		  '("%e" mode-line-front-space
> 		    (:propertize
> 		     ("" mode-line-mule-info
> 		      mode-line-client
> 		      mode-line-modified
> 		      mode-line-remote)
> 		     display (min-width (5.0)))
> 		    mode-line-misc-info ;; <-- HERE
> 		    mode-line-frame-identification
> 		    mode-line-buffer-identification
> 		    " "
> 		    mode-line-position
> 		    (vc-mode vc-mode)
> 		    " "
> 		    mode-line-modes
> 		    mode-line-end-spaces))
> 
>     (push '("" act) global-mode-string)
 
 
You got to use backquote and evaluate act using a comma.

(push `("" ,act) global-mode-string)