Re: Suggestions for mode-line-format changes

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Alan Shutko wrote:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> 
> > I guess most users will agree that knowing the time is
> > important around lunch time and near the end of the day :-)
> 
> It's also mail, battery status, and upcoming appointments for me.
> Some packages I don't personally use which seem to use
> global-mode-string include timeclock and viper.

How about making the mode line taller when the info it should display 
exceeds some threshold?  (Yes, on a tty that would mean the mode line 
will use two screen lines.)