Re: M-x compile should tell its status (a little bit better)..

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     BTW, `mode-name' should go through format-mode-line as well.
> 
> This would do no harm, but mode-name is always supposed to be a string.

Oooh.  I am moping because in AUCTeX, I was thinking of having a few
"flags" attached to the mode-name, so that I can have a mode-name
something like

'((TeX-use-pdftex "PDF") TeX-base-mode-name (TeX-source-specials "^"))

where the actual name is automatically composed from a few `lighters'
that would look pretty foolish anywhere else.

So maybe I need to hand-construct mode-name after all.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum