Re: Customizing the mode line

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Robert J. Chassell)
> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:40:49 +0000
> 
>     ... set for when I want to change the mode-line appearance temporarily.
> 
> I cannot help you.  Changing the value in a setq is the quickest method
> that I know and requires the least learning.  Fortunately, writing a
> .emacs file (mostly by copying, of course) is less complicated than
> reading, which almost every child learns (in a developed country).
> Emacs takes some learning, like all else.  Doubtless, anything that we
> can learn and become accustomed to, even `customize-*', can become
> `intuitive'.  But I lack the ability to learn anything complicated.  So
> I stick to .emacs files.  (I am not as good as I was.)

"M-x set-variable RET" is not complicated.