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bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode
From: |
Stephen Berman |
Subject: |
bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:13:39 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sun, 06 Feb 2022 22:52:13 +0100 Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
wrote:
> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> Nevertheless, I would be interested in trying it and seeing the code.
>> Can you post it?
>
> I don't have it any more. The basic idea was like
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (defvar ml-scroll-amnt 0)
>
> (setq-default
> mode-line-format
> `(:eval (substring (format-mode-line ',mode-line-format)
> ml-scroll-amnt)))
> #+end_src
>
> and let mouse-4 and mouse-5 over the mode-line de- and increase
> `ml-scroll-amnt'. That's all.
Thanks, but doesn't this just truncate the mode-line-string
continuously? For scrolling back, it seems necessary to store the
original mode-line-string and concatenate the previously truncated part
of it with the current value.
> Be careful when the variable binding of `mode-line-format' changes - the
> above hack won't survive that, so when a certain mode redefines
> `mode-line-format' (with other words: doesn't use the default value,
> like Gnus), you need to do the above after the variable has been set.
What I had in mind was something like using auto-hscroll-mode on the
mode line, or making it into something like a horizontal scroll bar.
Either of these, if possible at all, requires changes in the C code.
Steve Berman
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, (continued)
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, goncholden, 2022/02/04
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Stephen Berman, 2022/02/04
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, goncholden, 2022/02/04
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Stephen Berman, 2022/02/04
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, goncholden, 2022/02/04
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Stephen Berman, 2022/02/04
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/02/05
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/02/05
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Stephen Berman, 2022/02/06
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/02/06
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode,
Stephen Berman <=
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/02/06
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Stephen Berman, 2022/02/06
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/02/06
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Stephen Berman, 2022/02/07
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, goncholden, 2022/02/06
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Phil Sainty, 2022/02/04