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Re: Images, display-time, modeline


From: Amy Templeton
Subject: Re: Images, display-time, modeline
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:49:34 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux)

Glenn Morris wrote:
> What's the value of display-time-string-forms

((if 
     (and (not display-time-format) display-time-day-and-date) 
     (format-time-string "%a %b %e " now) "") 
 (format-time-string 
  (or display-time-format 
      (if display-time-24hr-format 
          "%H:%M" 
        "%-I:%M%p")))
 (if mail 
     (concat " " 
             (propertize
              "Mail" ... ... ... "mouse-2: Read mail" ... ...))
   ""))

> and of display-time-string when you have mail?

#("2:38PM Mail" 0 7 nil 7 11 (display 
                              (when (and display-time-use-mail-icon ...) 
                                image :type pbm 
                                :file 
"~/vc/cvs/emacs/2007-04-15/share/emacs/22.0.97/etc/letter.pbm" 
                                :ascent center 
                                :background unspecified) 
                              help-echo "mouse-2: Read mail" 
                              local-map (keymap (mode-line
                              keymap ...))))

Incidentally, what do all the ...'s mean? They don't seem to
be either a function or a variable.

> You don't have gif support, which explains why Google
> logos don't appear.

Oh, duh, I guess I just forgot to ask the configure script
for that. Next update, I guess.

> What happens if you evaluate the following in the scratch
> buffer:

> (insert (propertize "foo" 'display display-time-mail-icon))

It inserts the icon!

> Does it change if you switch to letter.xbm?

I've tried pointing display-time-mail-icon to that and it
didn't show up in the modeline. 

> Does it change if you switch to letter.xbm?

Instead, it prints "foo."

Any ideas on what this all means?

Thanks,
Amy





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