Re: How force evaluation of this string's math *before* print?....

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.1034193309.19968.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 <seberino@spawar.navy.mil> wrote:
>Jesper
>
>Thank you so much!! I implemented your suggestion and it gave
>me a column number on my mode line that indeed updates itself
>as I move around my document!!!
>
>Can I ask you one last question? I noticed that often
>the column number will *not* be updated with this
>suggestion.  For some reason, on some
>lines, the column number is not updated when I move right and
>left with the cursor until some event forces an update.
>For example, when I change
>line numbers that seems to force an update of the column number.
>Often pressing right/left arrow *does* effect an update of
>column number on modeline but not always.

The :eval stuff will only be executed when Emacs thinks that something has
changed that requires recomputing the mode line.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
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