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bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode
From: |
Stephen Berman |
Subject: |
bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:02:27 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 04 Feb 2022 11:55:45 +0000 goncholden via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> Have been using define-minor-mode and noticed that when setting the
> modeline indicator, the text is appended with no space between other
> modeline indicators. Is this how :lighter is supposed to work?
Yes, the lack of a space is in the definition of `mode-line-modes':
`(:propertize ("" minor-mode-alist)
I guess the reason is that you can have multiple minor mode lighters and
providing a space between each would complicate the definition of
`mode-line-modes', so that's the job of the minor mode definition
itself:
> (define-minor-mode rich-minor-mode
> "This is the docstring."
> :lighter "rich"
So you should do this: :lighter " rich"
Steve Berman
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, goncholden, 2022/02/04
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode,
Stephen Berman <=
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, goncholden, 2022/02/04
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Stephen Berman, 2022/02/04
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, goncholden, 2022/02/04
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Stephen Berman, 2022/02/04
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, goncholden, 2022/02/04
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Stephen Berman, 2022/02/04
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/02/05
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/02/05
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Stephen Berman, 2022/02/06
- bug#53776: Modeline indicator when using define-minor-mode, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/02/06