Re: Emacs mode line fonts seems to change when you load viper

[Michael Kifer]

> Jason Rumney wrote:
> > The only thing I notice is that the buffer name is no longer in bold 
> > after starting viper. This is because viper modifies 
> > `mode-line-buffer-identification'.
> There seem to have been some major change there. The doc string for 
> mode-line-buffer-identification says that the default value is ("%12b") 
> which no longer seems to be true. That seems like a documentation bug.
> 
> Michael, why does viper modify this variable? It sets it to (" %b"). Is 
> this necessary?
> 
> 
> 


good question. Probably a workaround of something in an old version of emacs.
I commented out
(setq-default mode-line-buffer-identification '(" %b"))
in viper.el, and it seems that everything is still fine.
(I don't see any difference on my system, but I hope you see them on yours).


        --michael