On Friday, July 25th, 2025 at 11:20, Fraga, Eric <[email protected]> wrote:
> just as an example of a mode line that uses the
> mode-line-format-right-align.
Thanks! This got me off to a good start. I also watched Prot's video on mode
lines¹ which was very helpful. I settled on this:
(setq-default mode-line-format
(list
"%e" ;; Memory error. Do I need this? Everyone seems to include
it.
mode-line-front-space
"%@ %+ " ;; Remote editing? File modified or read-only?
(propertize "%n " 'face 'warning) ;; Narrowed?
(propertize "%b " 'face 'bold) " " ;; Buffer name
"%l (%p of %I) " ;; Line number (percent into file of size)"
'(:eval vc-mode )
" "
mode-line-modes
;; RHS
'mode-line-format-right-align
mode-line-misc-info
mode-line-end-spaces)
)
And I use this to make the clock look like the rest of the mode line (without a
bright background) but be slightly slanted. I'm quite pleased with how it
looks now.
(set-face-attribute 'org-mode-line-clock nil :inherit nil :slant 'italic)
Cheers,
Bill
¹ https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2023-07-29-emacs-custom-modeline-tutorial/
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