Re: [STUMP] vertical mode-line?

[Mikael Jansson]

How is your setup for independent frame grups?

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Michael Raskin <address@hidden> wrote:
>>I'm not aware of this feature.  The issue being with how primitive the
>>modeline is.  Its just a special window that handles a string that can
>>be formatted various ways.  It shouldn't be too hard to get the
>>mode-line on the bottom of the screen, but it would probably take some
>>effort to get it on the side.  Currently the string just runs off the
>>end of the modeline if its too wide, so getting the mode-line to appear
>>in the right part of the screen is only half the battle, the second half
>>is getting it to display something useful.
>>
>>I would really like to make the mode-line more useful, but my ideas
>>require tearing it down and building it back up. I'm not the first
>>person to attempt it either.  Most efforts have stagnated and been lost
>>to time.
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> I decided to just have a shell script that outputs my modeline and
> hacked window management logic to tag frames so modeline frame is not
> included in window set change (modeline xterm stays there). Also
> independent frame groups help with managing multiple monitors, and
> FullHD monitors where I usually keep something on the right while change
> the main area contents...
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