Re: Customizing the mode line

[Chong Yidong]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Sorry, I do not follow: which problem is this supposed to help with,
> and how?

It makes it easier to users to figure out how to re-order the mode-line.
As Jared Finder just posted in another sub-thread:

> Reordering the mode line is much harder (and would be greatly
> appreciated by me).  I think if you cleaned up mode-line-format so
> that it only included VARIABLES, then this would be clear as day.
> Right now mode-line-format's default value is big and scary