Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored

[Stefan Monnier]

>    This can't be right: we have no idea what buffer we're in at this point.

> you're right.  i have just installed a `with-current-buffer' wrapper.

>> +       (setq mode-line-process " (background)")

>    The problem with this is that it's not necessarily clear that we're
>    changing mode-line-process in the right buffer either, here.

> PROC is taken from (current-buffer).  is that not reliable?

It's reliable in that we know which buffer it is, but that doesn't mean
it's the right buffer.  Isn't it often a hidden buffer like *vc* rather
than the vc-status buffer itself?


        Stefan