Re: Horizontal Scroll (mode-line)

[Johan Bockgård]

Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> writes:

> Presumably you can get the modestring to pop up in a temporary
> buffer. You might look at the variable mode-line-format and go from
> there. I'm not sure what code is used to parse the mode-line-format
> into the string you see in the modeline.

Emacs 22 has `format-mode-line'. In Emacs 21 this functionality is not
directly accessible from lisp. (You can look for the library
"apply-mode-line-format.el" by Kevin Rodgers though.)

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Johan Bockgård