Re: Suggestions for mode-line-format changes

[Kai Großjohann]

Alan Shutko <address@hidden> writes:

> Personally, I think that the global-mode-string information is more
> important to me than the modes, and this new change is exactly
> opposite my priorities.  I think that most people would probably agree
> with me.  Can we have a survey of some sort to decide whether to keep
> this change?  (Right now, I yanked the entire mode-line setup out of
> the old bindings.el, but that means I lose out on actual
> improvements.)

If it wasn't for the propertized strings in mode-line-format, it
would actually be easy for users to sort mode-line-format the way
they like: they just rearrange the existing elements the way they
like.

What do you think about making little variables mode-line-dash and
mode-line-space for them?

What do you think about doing a custom type for mode-line-format?  It
could be a list of variables whose names match the regexp "mode-line".

kai
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