Re: Keep global-mode-string on its own "modeline"?

[Philip Kaludercic]

Thuna <thuna.cing@gmail.com> writes:

> There is no good reason for `global-mode-string' to be displayed in
> every single window's modeline separately, it takes a lot of space, and
> it usually ends up not completely showing when the window is split more
> than once.  Would it not be better to keep it in a different location?
> It makes sense (to me) to have it at the top of each Emacs frame,
> although I'm open to suggestions.
>
> Currently, I get something to that effect with tab-bar-mode by setting
> `tab-bar-format' to `(tab-bar-format-global)', which does roughly what I
> want it to do, but it looks visibly different from the rest of Emacs to
> the point where it's rather off-putting.

How is it off-putting?  You can always customise the `tab-bar' face to
make it appear however you prefer.

I have been doing this for a while now and it works well (except that
mouse clicks aren't handled the same way as they are in the regular mode
line).

> I don't know what it would take to implement it (if it's even a good
> idea), but I just wanted to throw it out there.