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

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Message #26 received at 1164 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 1164 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1164: 23.0.60; Doc strings of mode-name, mode-line-format and format-mode-line
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:37:17 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 1164 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:43:29 -0400
> 
> 
> Pretty name of current buffer's major mode.
> This is usually a string, but can take any of the forms described for
> `mode-line-format'.  Pass to `format-mode-line' to get the value
> as a string, as it would appear in the mode line.
> 
> ?

Thanks, I used a variant of the above.

Btw, is there any package that actually uses this new functionality?
I couldn't find one, but maybe my Grep command was too naive.

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