Re: How to debug this problem?

[Stefan Monnier]

> On an Emacs started last night, at the moment overwrite-mode does not
> show the lighter but visual-line-mode does. The values of the two
> variables are as follows.

[...]
> minor-mode alist:
[...]
>  (overwrite-mode overwrite-mode)

This says that the text to display in the mode-line is contained in the
variable `overwrite-mode'.  So, what's the value of `overwrite-mode'
when you expect something to be displayed?


        Stefan