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Re: Different text/properties in active vs inactive mode line
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sdn . gnuem |
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Re: Different text/properties in active vs inactive mode line |
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Mon, 2 May 2011 14:03:14 -0400 (EDT) |
On Sun, 01 May 2011 03:49:38 -0400 (EDT), Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> That's okay, since I have no clear idea about what exactly you are
> after, either.
Hmm. Okay, let me start over, with visual aids this time. All links
below are to PNG images.
I am trying to find a way to change mode-line text and/or
properties dynamically, based on whether the mode-line is currently
active or not.
I have some propertized elements to my mode-line-format. You can
see an example here: http://cl.ly/1o0e0x3N1m2F0b3X3x3J (these aren't
the actual colors I use; this is an example for illustrative purposes).
This works fine, but it looks awful against the mode-line-inactive
face, when I split the window. See http://cl.ly/3X132L2I2s1C3R3P0K1k
Now, I could change the faces to look good with
mode-line-inactive, but then they look bad with the regular mode-line.
See http://cl.ly/0J0S361L3w3L1m0L0l2Z . I suppose if I were some kind
of UI designer god, I could come up with combinations that look good
on both backgrounds. But I'm not.
What I want is to be able to define one face to use on the mode
line in the active window, and a different face to use on the mode
line for all of the inactive windows: http://cl.ly/1Y442G1C073O051G4630
Then, when I move to a different window with C-xo, my custom faces
would change as the mode-line switches from mode-line face to
mode-line-inactive face: http://cl.ly/2Q1d3Z0q2a3W1s1S273m
I hope that helps.
-- Sue D. Nymme
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