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bug#14957: 24.3.50; Flyspell language visible in mode line
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
bug#14957: 24.3.50; Flyspell language visible in mode line |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:04:00 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
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"Sebastien Vauban" wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> Michael Heerdegen wrote:
>>> (add-to-list 'mode-line-format ...)
>>
>> That's not good. `mode-line-format' "automatically becomes
>> buffer-local when set" (see C-h v). Your `add-to-list' only
>> manipulates the `mode-line-format' of the current buffer when your
>> code is evaluated (*scratch*, probably).
>>
>> You have to modify the default value, like this:
>>
>> (setq-default mode-line-format
>> (cons
>> '(:eval
>> (let ((dict (and (featurep 'ispell)
>> (or ispell-local-dictionary
>> ispell-dictionary))))
>> (and dict
>> (concat " ["
>> (propertize (substring dict 0 2)
>> 'face 'mode-line-highlight)
>> "]"))))
>> (default-value 'mode-line-format)))
>>
>> Does that help?
>
> It does and did.
>
> Though, when opening some types of files (?) [1], I just observed that there
> is
> an error message generated:
>
> ╭────
> │ File mode specification error: (wrong-type-argument buffer-or-string-p
> │ (:eval (let ((dict (and (featurep (quote ispell)) (not buffer-read-only)
> │ (or ispell-local-dictionary ispell-dictionary)))) (and dict (propertize
> │ (concat " " (substring dict 0 2)) (quote face) (quote
> │ mode-line-highlight))))))
> ╰────
>
> I'm not sure what to understand from that... That `mode-line-format' must be
> a string? Hence, how do we put the `eval' stuff?
>
> Best regards,
> Seb
>
> [1] Opening a file with a `.csv' extension.
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