Re: The future of Follow Mode - a proposal.

[John Yates]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:

There may be better ways to achieve the single mode line, but one way
would be to implement mode lines as windows in their own right, thus giving
them scope to be somewhere else other than squashed up into a window's last
line.

I have yet to use FM.  OTOH I have often wanted to put the mode line at

of my windows.  There are some hacks out on the web that approximate

such behavior.  They do so by usurping the header line, thereby breaking

various modes.

Putting the mode line at the top of the window is especially desirable on

large, high resolution screens.  When a buffer's contents does not fill

a vertical window there can be a large expanse of blank space between

EOB and that window's mode line.

/john