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Re: CC Mode 5.31.3
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
Re: CC Mode 5.31.3 |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:10:39 +0000 (GMT) |
Hi, Kim!
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Kim F. Storm wrote:
>Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
>> Hi, Emacs!
>> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Richard Stallman wrote:
>>> The issues with the Mode Name, and minor mode flags in the mode
>>> line are still unresolved. On typing M-x smerge-mode, C Mode's
>>> flags (the "/la" of "C/la") now stay with the major mode, but this
>>> is done by setting mode-name to "C/la", a stop-gap solution at
>>> best.
>>>Anyway, can't you achieve what you want with a local binding for
>>>mode-line-modes? Or mode-line-process?
>I don't see why we cannot just make a new variable for this.
>After all, CC Mode is an important feature of Emacs.
Hey, do you want me to buy you a beer? ;-)
>Of course, this only works for 22.x and forward, but that's life :-)
Just like syntax-table text properties only work for Emacs 20.x forwards.
Even CC Mode won't be maintaining support for 21.x for ever. ;-)
>*** bindings.el 06 Feb 2006 18:21:19 +0100 1.157
>--- bindings.el 27 Feb 2006 10:03:17 +0100
>***************
>*** 220,225 ****
>--- 220,231 ----
> (defvar mode-line-frame-identification '("-%F ")
> "Mode-line control to describe the current frame.")
>+ (defvar mode-line-submode nil "\
>+ Mode-line control for displaying submodes of the major mode.
>+ Normally nil in most modes, since there is no submode to display.")
I'd be more emphatic in that doc-string: "Mode line format element for
displaying extra major-mode information. THIS SHOULD ALWAYS APPEAR TO
THE RIGHT OF VARIABLE `mode-name' WITHOUT INTERVENING SPACE.", or
something like that.
[ .... ]
>--
>Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)