mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) (08/14/86)
Keywords: Does anybody know how to set the modeline in GNU Emacs to something besides the default value? I want to get rid of the dashes and move things around a bit. So far, I've found the variable default-mode-line-format, but I don't know what the control characters in the format string stand for. It looks similar to the way Gosling Emacs does its modeline, but not exactly. Can anyone supply me with a list of modeline control characters and what they stand for? Secondly, I have the line (display-time) in my .emacs file. However, I am not getting the time on the modeline. I am using the standard time.el library and default modeline format. Attempts to run M-x display-time when Emacs is in operation place the message "time and load" on the modeline. Then Emacs overwrites the message with the old modeline. Still no time. Does anybody have an idea what I am doing wrong? -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mike Portuesi | | Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department | | | | ARPA: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (preferred), mp1u@td.cc.cmu.edu | | UUCP: {harvard | seismo | ucbvax | decwrl}!spice.cs.cmu.edu!mjp | | | | "Little things remind me of you...Cheap cologne and that damn song too!" | | --The Flirts, "Jukebox" | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
salzman@rdlvax.UUCP (Gumby) (08/18/86)
In article <1061@spice.cs.cmu.edu> mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes: >(display-time) >in my .emacs file. However, I am not getting the time on the >modeline. I am using the standard time.el library and default >modeline format. Attempts to run M-x display-time when Emacs is in >operation place the message "time and load" on the modeline. Then >Emacs overwrites the message with the old modeline. Still no time. Check the execute permission on 'loadst'. It's in /usr/local/lib/emacs/etc, or wherever you keep your emacs files. If emacs can't exec loadst it will display 'time and load' for a sec and then repaint with the original modeline. This happend to me when I forgot to make loadst public executeable (or the directory it's in).... -- ---- * Isaac Salzman (Gumby) /o o/ / * Research Development Labs (RDL) | v | | * Culver City, California, 90230 _| |_/ * UUCP: ...!{psivax,sdcrdcf,csun}!rdlvax!salzman / | | * ARPA: rdlvax!salzman@SEISMO.CSS.GOV | | |
wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP (08/22/86)
From src/buffer.c:
DefBufferLispVar ("mode-line-format", &bf_cur->mode_line_format,
"Template string for displaying mode line for current buffer.\n\
Each buffer has its own value of this variable.\n\
The string is printed verbatim in the mode line\n\
except for %-constructs:\n\
%b -- print buffer name. %f -- print visited file name.\n\
%* -- print *, % or hyphen. %m -- print value of mode-name.\n\
%s -- print process status. %M -- print value of global-mode-string.\n\
%p -- print percent of buffer above top of window, or top, bot or all.\n\
%[ -- print one [ for each recursive editing level. %] similar.\n\
%% -- print %. %- -- print infinitely many dashes.\n\
Decimal digits after the % specify field width to pad or truncate to.");