GNU bug report logs - #41250
28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com>

Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 01:43:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com>
Cc: 41250 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 19:42:49 +0300

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com>
> Cc: drew.adams <at> oracle.com,  41250 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  juri <at> linkov.net
> Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 18:34:53 +0200
> 
> I have a technical question regarding this: is it possilbe to detect in
> elisp when pointer howers over part of a string, i.e. part of mode-name
> on a lighter, since a lighter is a button. Would this be quite involved
> or it can be implemented easily?

You need to define different help-echo strings for different parts of
the string, using text properties.  You can see how this is done in
bindings.el.
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