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Why was the global-mode-string moved?
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John Wiegley |
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Why was the global-mode-string moved? |
Date: |
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 14:04:33 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
I found this entry:
2002-08-21 Kim F. Storm <address@hidden>
* bindings.el (mode-line-format): Moved global-mode-string last.
(mode-line-position): Moved %p first. Added padding to %l/%c to
eliminate jumpyness in modeline. Use (%l,%c) format if both
line-number-mode and column-number-mode are enabled.
Why was this done? I liked having the time of day, my current
battery level, etc., *before* the minor-mode-alist. Since the
minor-mode-alist has a tendency to be large, it now pushes
everything so far off to the right that the mode-line is nearly
useless.
I can fix this for myself, but can anyone tell me why it shouldn't
be moved back? I think the minor-mode-alist should be close to the
end, since the information it conveys is less often reference than
the other details on the mode-line.
John
- Why was the global-mode-string moved?,
John Wiegley <=