GNU bug report logs - #31851
26.1; Support a frame-wide bar similar to the mode line

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 20:43:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 26.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 31851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 31851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31851: 26.1; Support a frame-wide bar similar to the mode line
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 09:53:38 +0200

>> You can use a side window, see section 28.19 "Side Windows" of the Elisp
>> manual, for that.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. This looks similar to what I want, but it
> doesn't look like there's a way to make it apply to all frames (like the
> mode-line does

... strictly spoken a mode-line "applies" to a buffer or a window but
not to a frame ...

), right?

It doesn't apply to all frames, right.  You have to add some code,
probably to 'after-make-frame-functions', to display such a side
window on every frame.

martin
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