Re: Global bar to display global information

[Óscar Fuentes]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

> +1

+1

[snip]

> This proposed feature is along the same lines.  But this would not
> have as its goal to eliminate mode lines from individual windows.  It
> would instead just free up some of that individual-window mode line
> space that might be used for global info (not specific to the given
> buffer/window).

I'll appreacite such feature.

Most of the time the minibuffer is an idle blank line at the bottom of
the frame. Using it for displaying some global info sounds quite
convenient. It could display the global info even while asking for
input, overwritting the area used by the info as necessary.