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Re: help needed with gnus mode-line


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: help needed with gnus mode-line
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:20:40 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux)

Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden> writes:

> i would like to display temporarily information in mode-line while i am
> in gnus.

The mode-line is not designed for temporary display.  That's what the
echo area is for.

> In all emacs, something like this work fine:
>
> (let ((mode-line-format (concat " " str)))
>   (force-mode-line-update)
>   (sit-for 12))
> (force-mode-line-update))
>
> But in gnus the mode-line isn't modified.

Worksforme.

Andreas.

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