Subject: bug#53629: 27.1: add option to change face `mode-line-buffer-id` when mode-line is inactive

From: José Júnior <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2022 09:10:44 -0300

Thanks, I think it's perfect now. It would be good to have it documented,
indeed.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 4:52 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> wrote:

> martin rudalics <[email-masked]> writes:
>
> > I disregarded the useless complication that 'minibuffer-selected-window'
> > returns nil when the selected window is not a minibuffer window.  Please
> > try the below.
> >
> > martin
> >
> > (defun my-buffer-identification (fmt)
> >   (list (propertize
> >        fmt
> >        'face (if (let ((window (selected-window)))
> >                    (or (eq window (old-selected-window))
> >                        (and (minibuffer-window-active-p
> (minibuffer-window))
> >                             (with-selected-window (minibuffer-window)
> >                               (eq window
> (minibuffer-selected-window))))))
>
> Thanks; seems to work fine.  Perhaps we should make this into a utility
> function and then document this technique in the manual in the mode line
> section?
>
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