Re: actual mode-line string

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "D" == D Goel <deego@glue.umd.edu> writes:
> IMHO, it would be nice if there was a command like 
> (actual-mode-line-string &optional buffername)
> which would return a string, and that string would be the actual
> current string displayed in the given buffername. 

I indeed don't know of any such function right now.
I myself would like to have such a thing, except with a slightly
different calling convention:

        (I-ll-let-you-choose-the-name-of-the-function mode-line-format)

this way it can be applied to the icon-title-format as well or to
subparts of the mode line, ...


        Stefan