Re: ielm working buffer on the modeline

[Andreas Schwab]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

|> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:07:55 -0700 (MST), Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 
wrote:
|> 
|> > The new text would be somewhat longer and that might be inconvenient.
|> 
|> If pixels are so scarce, "(IELM on buffer-name)" could be
|> "(IELM:buffer-name)". I bet buffer names aren't usually so large as to

Buffer names can be quite large, the one I'm currently typing in is named
"*wide reply to Juanma Barranquero*".

|> make any difference, and IELM buffers usually don't have minor modes
|> active, so there's (relatively) plenty of space.

At least it should perhaps be omitted if the buffer is the same as the
IELM buffer.

Andreas.

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