Re: Proposal: new mode-line `%'-construct %o meaning "Degree of travel of window through buffer".

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 12:45:41 -0400
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > The mode-line format already supports :eval, so this should already
> > be possible?
> 
> I meant just having a knob that could be set to a function that would
> run and produce the value for %p rather than changing mode-line-format
> with :eval. Though maybe this would be too slow?

I don't mind, I just don't see a lot of difference between having a
knob and using :eval directly, for someone who can write a Lisp
function that would work in this context.