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Propertizing the minor-mode-alist
From: |
James Clark |
Subject: |
Propertizing the minor-mode-alist |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:57:46 +0700 |
In the current CVS emacs, the default mode-line-format propertizes
minor-mode-alist like this:
`(:propertize ("" minor-mode-alist)
help-echo "mouse-2: help for minor modes, mouse-3: minor
mode menu"
local-map ,mode-line-minor-mode-keymap)
This causes a problem in nxml-mode. One of the features of nxml-mode is
that it optionally does continuous background validation. The part of
nxml-mode that does this is implemented as minor-mode and it displays
the current validation status by adding an element using :eval to
minor-mode-alist. When the status is invalid, it returns a propertized
string with local-map and help-echo properties, which allows the user to
click on the word Invalid in the mode-line and go to the first error
detected in the document. This worked fine in 21.3 but no longer works
in the CVS version presumably because the properties nxml-mode that adds
are overridden by the :propertize in minor-mode-alist.
Perhaps there could be a new keyword :propertize-default that changes
the text properties of only those characters in the string that do not
already have a value for any of the specified properties. Or maybe this
should be the behavior of :propertize. If you tell me how you would
like to fix this, I will be happy to have a go at implementing it.
James
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- Propertizing the minor-mode-alist,
James Clark <=
- Re: Propertizing the minor-mode-alist, Stefan, 2004/09/16
- Re: Propertizing the minor-mode-alist, James Clark, 2004/09/16
- Re: Propertizing the minor-mode-alist, Richard Stallman, 2004/09/17
- Re: Propertizing the minor-mode-alist, James Clark, 2004/09/17
- Re: Propertizing the minor-mode-alist, Richard Stallman, 2004/09/18
- Re: Propertizing the minor-mode-alist, David Kastrup, 2004/09/19
- Re: Propertizing the minor-mode-alist, James Clark, 2004/09/19