Re: HowTo: Run a hook when a buffer becomes "current"

[raman]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

mode-line-update ->mood-line-update:-)

Eventually I think that is correct if this whole thing actually and
proves useful in the sense:

For someone who can see the screen and configures emacs window layout to
reflect the current activity, the mood is best computed from the set of
visible windows/frames -- and there, latching on to mode-line might be
the right thing. For now I 'm keeping it simple by only looking at the
current buffer -- 
>
>> I divided the types of things I do  into categories:
>> (things I do == things I do in Emacs since I dont use anything else)
>>
>> Communicate: mail, gnus, twitter, jabber  etc 
>> Program (prog-mode covers them all)
>> text-mode (write content)
>> special-mode: applications written in Emacs 
>> web: eww, w3
>>
>> Then I created a mapping from modes to soundscapes (think mode -> mood) 
>> and finally, i  attached myself to select-mode-hook to switch the
>> soundscape that is playing. 
>
> Sounds to me as if you want to hook in the mode line update.  Which then
> becomes more of a mood line update.

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