Re: Inserting string to start of mode-line via change in mode-line-format

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022 at 9:41 AM
> From: "Heime" <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> To: "Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Inserting string to start of mode-line via change in mode-line-format
>
> Wanting to insert a string (act) in the beginning of the mode-line, 
> mode-line-format was
> modified as follows.  But I am not getting the string printed.  What am I 
> doing wrong here?
> 
>     (setq-default mode-line-format
>                 '("%e" mode-line-front-space
>                   (:propertize
>                    ("" mode-line-mule-info
>                     mode-line-client
>                     mode-line-modified
>                     mode-line-remote)
>                    display (min-width (5.0)))
>                   mode-line-misc-info ;; <-- HERE
>                   mode-line-frame-identification
>                   mode-line-buffer-identification
>                   " "
>                   mode-line-position
>                   (vc-mode vc-mode)
>                   " "
>                   mode-line-modes
>                   mode-line-end-spaces))
> 
>     (push '("" act) global-mode-string)
 
 
You got to use backquote and evaluate act using a comma.

(push `("" ,act) global-mode-string)