Re: Displaying the window number in the mode line?

[Oliver Scholz]

myrkraverk@users.sourceforge.net writes:
[...]
> 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:
>
> (defun my-window-number ()
>   (number-to-string
>    (1- (length (memq (selected-window) (nreverse
>                                       (window-list)))))))
>
> Then I create this list with items I want to show in the modeline:
>
> (setq window-number-string
>       (list "W"
>       '(:eval (my-window-number)) " "))
>
> And add it to the global-mode-string:
>
> (add-to-list 'global-mode-string '("" window-number-string))
[...]

(add-to-list 'global-mode-string window-number-string)

    Oliver
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