Re: How make this modeline item be recalculated more often?

[seberino]

Colin

I'm curious what exactly RMS looked into.  What exactly
was your question/concern???

Chris

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:24:24PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote:
> seberino@spawar.navy.mil writes:
> 
> >    (setq default-mode-line-format (list ""
> >                                    'mode-line-buffer-identification
> >                                    "     "
> >                                    (system-name)
> >                                    "     "
> >                                    '(:eval (format "%s" (+ (string-to-int 
> > "%c") 1))) 
> >                                    "Line %l Col %c"))
> >
> > I've been playing with adding one to column number in modeline and
> > came up with the eval element above....
> >
> > It evaluates to a 1 when column in zero but it is not updated
> > when I change the columns!?!?!? How make it be reevaluated
> > when %c changes???
> 
> I also asked this a while ago and got told that Emacs 21 now has display
> optimizations that prevent this from working like we want. RMS looked
> into it and said that changing it would require extensive modifications.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Colin
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