Re: Customizing the mode line

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 18:46, M Jared Finder <address@hidden> wrote:

> 1. Change mode-line-format to not include ANY explicitly propertized
> strings.  Use :eval and :propertize.
> 2. Remove condition branching in mode-line-format.  Just variables with
> formatting info should be there, put the branching in those variables.
> 3. Change the pretty-printer used by C-h v to somehow recognize that
> mode-line-format should be formatted with a newline after every element.
> 4. Change the customize option for mode-line-format to display it as a
> reorderable list, like c-mode-hook.

These are really good suggestions. 1 and 2 would go a long way towards
reducing the current pain.

    Juanma