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bug#59624: Usning global-mode-string for small screens
From: |
Gabriel |
Subject: |
bug#59624: Usning global-mode-string for small screens |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:34:04 -0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Heime via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
> I would need some more assistance to get this to work for me.
>
> When should I update mode-line-format ?
>
> Call it first, followed by (push '("" act) global-mode-string).
>
> Would I have to call (force-mode-line-update) ?
>
Emacs is smart enough to know when to update the mode-line. What is
the exactly problem you are facing? Does the following code do not work
for you?
(progn
;; create the `act` variable
(setq act "Indic")
;; add `act` to `global-mode-string`, so it's displayed in the mode-line
(push '("" act) global-mode-string)
;; change position of `global-mode-string` in the mode-line
(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-frame-identification mode-line-buffer-identification
mode-line-misc-info ;; <-- TO HERE
" " mode-line-position
(vc-mode vc-mode)
" " mode-line-modes mode-line-end-spaces))
;; you can then update `act' as you want
;; the mode-line will be automatically
;; updated (when Emacs thinks it needs to)
;; the code below will update `act' every 3s
(run-with-timer 3
3
(lambda ()
;; not really needed, but you can force it
;;(force-mode-line-update)
(setq act
(format"|act=%s|" (current-time-string))))))
---
Gabriel?