Questions tagged [mode-line]
The mode line is a useful summary information about the buffer shown in the window, including its name and current modes. It is located at the bottom of every Emacs Window aside from MiniBuffer windows.
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spaceline (modeline) truncate filename directory
I believe I've seen a type of abbreviation with some(?) modeline packages that I'd like to implement in spaceline (I'd be willing to switch modelines for a good reason). I want to abbreviate the ...
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Show the full path to the file
Windows 10, Emacs 25.1.
Suppose I open file D:/temp/test/myfile.txt.
But in the in the mode line show only file name (myfile.txt).
But I need to show FULL path to file:
D:/temp/test/myfile.txt
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How can I show the full path to the current file in the mode-line for Spacemacs (Spaceline)?
I'd like to display the full path instead of just the filename itself.
How can this be done?
So essentially where it says .spacemacs in the below image (seems this mode-line is called "Spaceline"):
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How to change the size on mode-line horizontal line
I am running emacs version:
GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20, cairo version 1.16.0)
of 2020-09-19
On ubuntu 20.04 on a Laptop with 4K display in 200% scaling mode (...
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Is there a general way to delay computing & displaying mode-line text?
Some things I'd like to show in the mode-line are quite expensive to compute, so I'd rather use an idle timer.
Is there a general way to do this? or does this need to be added individually? (using a ...
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Evil, How do I display visual range in mode-line
I'd like to see the size (number of rows and/or columns) of the visual selection in my mode-line. I use evil. How do I do that?
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How to customize the rendering of the straight lines in mode line?
Here are two examples of what I mean:
The lines are rendered in a different color as the background, so they are clearly seen:
The lines are rendered in the same color as the background, so they can ...
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How do I remove all the trailing dashes in the mode line of terminal Emacs?
In terminal Emacs:
Look at the mode line. Notice that there are lots of dashes (hyphen-minuses, to be precise) (-----) at the end of the mode line (after "(Lisp Interaction)"). How do I ...
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How to show just one minor-mode in modeline
When I'm writing I really only want to see the word count, and ultimately that's the problem I'm trying to solve.
There's a modeline indicator that, but to see it, I have to see all the other minor ...
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How show % near rows and columns in mode line?
Emacs 26.1
I use smart mode line: https://github.com/Malabarba/smart-mode-line
Here result:
Nice. It's work fine.
But I need to show % near rows and columns.
Something like this:
712:93 (17%)
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Coloured active mode line only when many windows
I am reluctantly using a coloured active mode line to
distinguish it from inactive mode lines, but it occurred to me
that it might be possible to reserve its colouring for times
when there are more ...
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Mode-line always shows [Compiling] after compile a tex file with typos
For some special tex with typos, mode-line always shows [Compiling] even if we correct all typos.
To reproduce
First compile the following correct tex by C-c C-a
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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Display word count in modeline without lag
Problem
Stopped using wc-mode as it is not snappy anymore (as text writing usually is) with text document of 10k words. It appears that it counts the whole buffer after every change which seems to ...
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How to show C/C++ doxygen section titles in the mode-line?
For C/C++ code that use doxygen sections, it would be useful to show these in the mode-line, without slowing down the mode-line display significantly.
Is there a good way to add context information to ...
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Doom Emacs does not display wordcount
Running Doom Emacs 2.0.9.
If I make a selection, I can see the word-count. This is as expected because doom-modeline-enable-word-count is set to t.
However, I was expecting to see a word-count as I ...
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How to measure the performance of the mode-line?
Currently when making changes to the mode-line, I try to write efficient elisp,
However I don't know for sure if what I'm doing is in fact efficient.
How could I test the mode-line performance?
For ...
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How to efficiently include a repository relative path in the mode-line?
Currently in the mode-line the filename %f, is absolute.
I would like to have the path relative to the version-control root, without having to find this every redraw.
How could this be cached, ...
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How can I shorten the buffername in (smart) mode line?
I like to shorten the buffername in mode-line to a specific number of characters. I am using the following code to do it,
(setq-default mode-line-buffer-identification (list -20 (propertized-buffer-...
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Customize vc-mode appearance in mode-line
I use vc-mode to show information about the current VC state in my mode line, like this:
(setq mode-line-format '(… (vc-mode vc-mode) …))
However, I find the default format of vc-mode pretty verbose....
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How to use doom-modeline in spacemacs?
This might be a fairly stupid question but I simply can't figure it out.
I've been trying to install doom-modeline for spacemacs:
https://seagle0128.github.io/doom-modeline/#install
I've added the ...
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Disable Evil-mode's state indication on mode line
How do I disable evil-mode's state indicator on the mode line? I don't want to see anything like <N>, <I>, <V> on my modeline.
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Diminish flyspell
How can I diminish flyspell-mode (the one built-in to emacs)? With use-package, none of the following work:
(use-package flyspell-mode
:diminish)
(use-package flyspell-mode
:diminish 'flyspell-...
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Fontify parts of the mode-line
How do I most conveniently fontify/colorize parts of my mode-line.
Specifically I want the vc branch named to have one color for master and another for other branches.
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Colored string in mode line
I have:
(setq mode-line-end-spaces "string")
That displays string in the mode-line.
How can I get string in red there?
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How can I display desktop-dirname in the modeline (or elsewhere)?
I often get confused about the current desktop I'm using. Currently, I have to call (display-variable desktop-dirname) to see in which desktop I'm working.
It would be much nicer, if the current ...
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How to right align some items in the modeline?
Given the following modeline configuration:
(setq-default mode-line-format
(list
;; Current buffer name
"%b "
;; Major mode
"[%m] "
;; Modified status
"[%*] "
;; Cursor ...
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Multiline mode-line using dynamic generated text images
I've been doing experiments at displaying static text images in the mode-line using Imagemagick to generate the image (see below). I would like now to generate such an image in a dynamic way, ...
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How to disable changing the current buffer by clicking buffer name in mode line?
I find myself accidentally clicking the mode line when trying to focus a buffer with the mouse. This causes the buffer to change. I don't want that behavior. I want nothing to happen.
The culprit ...
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Hide list of minor modes in mode-line
I use quite a few minor modes and usually I know which minor mode is enabled in every major mode. If I really want to see the full list, I can run C-h v minor-mode-list.
At the same time, my mode ...
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Mode-line Directory Path Display
Was seeking here a way to show in mode-line the full path of directory, as the answered question bellow:
How can I show the full path to the current file in the mode-line for Spacemacs (Spaceline)?
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How to detect modified buffer in the mode-line, skipping special buffers?
I'm trying to have my mode-line to display a "(modified)" string instead of the * mark. To do that, I make a test with buffer-modified-p but this seems to be always true for "special" buffers as well (...
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Make flycheck-color-mode-line active on buffer not active & emacs not focused
I installed flycheck (I usually used flymakes) as well as different other packages associated to it. One of them is flycheck-color-line-mode which change the color of the mode-line according to the ...
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Strange behaivor counting lines in hooks `find-file-hook` or `text-mode-hook`
For me, the clearest measure for the size of a file is its number of lines.
So, I want this information in my mode line.
I am using Doom emacs and, even I could define my own mode line, for such a ...
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Activate doom mode line theme on non doom theme
I would like to use a non doom theme on Emacs but I like the doom mode line. The problem is if I use a non doom dark theme, say Charcoal-Black, and activate doom mode line, then doom mode line is ...
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Variable's value in mode-line?
I have this function that sets the isearch-filter-predicate variable to a predicate (function) from a list of predicates:
(defun set-isearch-filter-predicate ()
(interactive)
(unless (boundp '...
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Make the mode-line display percentage and not “Top/Bottom/All”
Mode line's %p displays the percentage of the current view of the buffer:
%p The percentage of the buffer text above the top of window, or
‘Top’, ‘Bottom’ or ‘All’. Note that the default mode ...
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How to display a python string in the modeline?
I'm using a python script to get my monthly bandwith usage shown as string on the terminal stdout. How can I display & update it periodically in the modeline?
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Show current org-mode outline position in modeline
I'm using org-mode with really huge files (what I love in org-mode is having everything in a single file).
I would like to know where I am in the file by having a look at the modeline.
If I have the ...
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Place time displayed in the begginning of modeline
I installed doom-emacs and modeline displayed as
How could place the time 10:55 AM in the beginning, since if more windows opened and arranged horizontally, the directory name are so long enough to ...
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How to append string that get's updated to mode line?
I would like to append some information (that changes over time) to the mode line format and then use it in the title.
My thought being is that once a minute I would set the frame-title-format to be ...
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Git status on modeline to indicate if behind remote?
Can I get Emacs to indicate on the mode-line whether a push is needed, i.e. whether the repo is out of sync with origin?
I've already got it telling me if a commit is needed using vc-status, but that ...
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which-function-mode and modified mode line
I modified my mode-line, but now which-function-mode stopped working: nothing is displayed. Code:
(setq mode-line-position
(list '(:eval (propertize "L%l " 'face nil 'help-echo "Line number"))
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How do I change the font color of mode-line?
How do I change the font color of the mode-line to make it more visible?
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Disable spaceline on certain terminals
I'm using spacemacs for the convenience of largely not having to maintain my own emacs configuration, after 25 years of emacs use. For graphical frames and high-color unicode terminals, the fancy mode-...
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How to change what modeline displays, based on major mode?
i know i can change what info to display in modeline in mode-line-format variable. But how to display mode-line-position for one mode, but not display it for another?
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How to show page number using pdf-tools in emacs mode line?
As title said, is there a way to have page number shows up in the mode line of emacs? I am not using any fancy power-line, this is stock emacs mode line.
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How to re arrange things in mode line?
I have installed nyan-mode and mode line looks like this.
I would like to move nyan cat to end of mode line and arrange all other items like column number, file name, modes to left side leaving empty ...
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How to :delight major mode strings when using powerline with use-package?
I am unable to :delight major mode strings (in the mode-line) from use-package because I am intializing powerline with use-package itself.
My guess is that the :delight'ing part occurs at the wrong ...
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is it possible to have a “calc embedded” indicator in doom-modeline?
this is indispensable, since I use "calc embedded" in auctex and need to leave this mode after have activate it.
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Powerline mode-line menues in terminal mode
When inside terminal mode (emacs -nw) I can open the menu using M-F10 in terminal mode. Is there a similar possibility for the powerline mode-line menue on the bottom of the window?
