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Re: Displaying the window number in the mode line?
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myrkraverk |
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Re: Displaying the window number in the mode line? |
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Thu, 22 May 2003 13:21:25 +0000 |
Hi,
Joakim Hove writes:
>
> myrkraverk@users.sourceforge.net writes:
>
> > I've made a crude hack to jump to a window with specific number, the
> > functions are available at
> >
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SwitchingWindows
> >
>
> Looks interesting!
>
> > This has resulted in my desire to display the window[1] number in the
> > mode line. So far I've the following function to evalute the number
> > of the selected window:
> 1. The *global*-mode-string is just that - i.e. it is gloablly shared
> among all windows (and even frames) - hence any code which simply
> sets global-mode-string to some value will result in the same value
> displayed in all windows. So (as far as I can see)
The (:eval ..) construct is though unique to each modeline.
> 2. global-mode-string is a string - not a list. The following
Actually, global-mode-string is a list, and now there are two methods
that show the window number in the modeline at the above url. The
latter is a fixed version of what I was trying to do.
Thanx though,
Johann