Re: How to debug this problem?

[Leo]

2009/9/4 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
>> 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?

overwrite-mode is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is
overwrite-mode-textual
Local in buffer *scratch*; global value is nil


but still no lighter in the mode line.

>        Stefan