Re: ielm working buffer on the modeline

[Kim F. Storm]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

> > What about changing the buffer name rather than the mode-line-process, ie.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > At least, that would display the information in the part of the mode line
> > where (potentially long) names are already shown.
> 
> Ok, I think that's a good idea, but it requires more code, because
> 
> ELISP> (setq mode-name '("IELM on " (:eval (buffer-name 
> ielm-working-buffer))))
> *** Eval error ***  error: "Only strings should be stored in the buffer-local 
> variable mode-name"

I wasn't talking about mode-name.

I was suggesting to use something like

   (rename-buffer (concat "*IELM on " 
                    (buffer-name ielm-working-buffer) "*"))

whenever C-c C-b is called.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk