Re: Customizing the modeline

[Julien Cubizolles]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:
>
>> I'd like to display the track currently played my mpd in the
>> modeline. What would be the easiest way to just add the output of
>>
>> mpc current -f "[[%artist%] %title%]"
>>
>> for example?
>
> You probably don't wan to run this command every time the mode-line is
> recalculated (which can be quite frequently).
>
> Do you control mpc from within Emacs?

Yes I do, with mingus.el. And as I stated in another reply, a recent fix
to mingus solved its modeline problem.

Julien.