GNU bug report logs - #1164
23.0.60; Doc strings of mode-name, mode-line-format and format-mode-line

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:25:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 1164 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1164: 23.0.60; Doc strings of mode-name, mode-line-format and format-mode-line
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:55:50 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 1164 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:42:09 -0400
> 
>       Use `(format-mode-line mode-name)' to ensure a string value.

Many users of format-mode-line do this:

     (format-mode-line mode-name nil nil buf)

where BUF is some buffer.  So evidently this isn't the whole story.
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