Subject: Re: bug#4217: 23.1; probable mode-line bug

From: Eli Barzilay <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:47:55 -0400

On Aug 24, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Eli Barzilay wrote:
> 
> > In this bit in "bindings.el" from the code that sets the modeline
> > format:
> >
> > 	 `(which-func-mode ("" which-func-format ,dashes))
> > 	 `(global-mode-string (,dashes global-mode-string))
> >
> > it looks like there is a typo, and the first line should also have the
> > dashes before the format string.
> 
> The following makes more sense to me. OK?

I thought that having them at the front makes more sense -- due to the
following "-%-".

> ***************
> *** 356,362 ****
>      (propertize "  " 'help-echo help-echo)
>       'mode-line-modes
>        `(which-func-mode ("" which-func-format ,dashes))
> !       `(global-mode-string (,dashes global-mode-string))
>          (propertize "-%-" 'help-echo help-echo)))
>          (standard-mode-line-modes
>          (list
> --- 364,370 ----
>      (propertize "  " 'help-echo help-echo)
>       'mode-line-modes
>        `(which-func-mode ("" which-func-format ,dashes))
> !       `(global-mode-string ("" global-mode-string ,dashes))
>          (propertize "-%-" 'help-echo help-echo)))
>          (standard-mode-line-modes
>          (list

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