Re: Suggestions for mode-line-format changes

[Mario Lang]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Bill White <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Fri Aug 23 2002 at 11:33, Alan Shutko <address@hidden> said:
>> 
>> > Personally, I think that the global-mode-string information is more
>> > important to me than the modes, and this new change is exactly
>> > opposite my priorities.  I think that most people would probably
>> > agree with me.
>
> I guess most users will agree that knowing the time is
> important around lunch time and near the end of the day :-)
>
erc-track.el uses the global-mode-string to
indicate if a channel buffer not currently visible
had activity.  It is quite important for
this feature to be visible, and not scrolled out on the right side.

I agree that time isn't that important, but there are other things which can
be put into global-mode-string.  I dont think
it should be changed from it's current location.

OTOH, I always wanted something like global-mode-string
which only occurs once in a frame.  Currently, global-mode-string
is displayed as many times as windows are displayed in the current frame.
This is waste of space for most things using global-mode-string
(like time and the mail icon).

If we could come up with an equivalent which is only displayed
at one position in the frame, I'd like that.
(e.g. on the right side of the menu, or there somewhere).

P.S.: To be worthwhile, this feature would
need to work in X and -nw.


-- 
CYa,
  Mario