Questions tagged [mode-line]
The mode line is a useful summary information about the buffer shown in the window, including its name and current modes. It is located at the bottom of every Emacs Window aside from MiniBuffer windows.
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Where is documentation for /d and /l on mode indicators in mode line?
The mode line for an elisp file shows the mode as elisp/d or elisp/l, where the /d is shown in red. I now understand /d to refer to dynamic scoping and /l to refer to lexical scoping. Mouse 1 can be ...
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mode-line-format: How to ensure `:eval`'d code is evaluated when necessary?
I'm trying to show full b/B bytes, l/L lines, c/C columns in the mode line (where n/N denotes "point is at n of N total), all zero-based, with both sides of each fraction padded as needed to keep ...
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Create a button on modeline to trigger custom command
I would like to create a button in the modeline clicking on which should run the view-lossage command which shows the list of previous 300 events. For example, I'm using the keycast package in my ...
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Mode line and vertical split windows
I've been recently experimenting with having the tooltips for the buffer on the mode line show the full file path via: ;; try switching buffer name tooltip in the mode line to actually be the full ...
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`line-number-mode`, but per-buffer (using `smart-mode-line` package)
Is it possible to have the line number where the cursor is shown in the mode-line (or line and column numbers appearing in the buffer) only for certain buffers, while it is disabled for other buffers. ...
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Time is not shown in mode line
Given: Home: Laptop Lenovo Legion OS: Linux Mint 21 Emacs 27.1 Office: PC OS: Linux Mint 21 3 Displays Emacs 29.1 In init.el I set time in mode line like this: (display-time-...
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Is there a way to display echo area message over mode line?
Currently it looks like But this is a bit annoying - as the echo messages changes between single line and multi-lines, the mode-line is moving up and down. I know I can truncate the message to make it ...
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Making certain key sequences show up in the lighter menu [duplicate]
With the following code, how can I get H-b, H-m, H-w, H-v, to show up in the lighter menu ? (defvar tika-kymap (let ((pfmap (make-sparse-keymap))) (keymap-set pfmap "H-b" #'outline-...
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