Re: Operation of format-mode-line

[Heime]

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On Friday, July 26th, 2024 at 3:26 AM, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 20:20, Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > I understand. propertized-buffer-identification has hardwired keymap etc
> 
> 
> It hardwires the keymap to the value of the variable
> ‘mode-line-buffer-identification-keymap’, but you are allowed to
> modify that variable.
> 
> > and calling it only sets the format used for the buffer identification
> > name.
> 
> 
> I’m pretty sure it will set the format for whatever modeline
> constructs you pass in.
> 
> That said, the function ‘propertized-buffer-identification’ is not
> very complex; you can copy it and adapt for your custom modeline
> parts.
> 
> (For myself, I’m not bothering with mouse bindings. Switching buffers
> one step at a time only really works when you have three or so, and
> that just does not happen. Switching between a few hundred buffers is
> better done via IBuffer anyway.)

Agreed, but since it is how buffer-identificoation works in the modeline, I did
not want to mess with it.