> I believe that the menu item text and the help echo for the item on
> the Show/Hide menubar menu that toggles Display Time mode is wrong.
> The current text says: "Date, Time and Mail". However, do
> `emacs -q' and then enable the item using the menubar. No date is shown,
> but if your load average is big enough, it will display the load
> average. Enabling `display-time-mode' will, as the docstring of the
> function says, show the date in the modeline if and only if
> `display-time-day-and-date' is non-nil. But the default value of
> that option is nil, so the menubar docs should not assume that it is
> non-nil.
Perhaps what is wrong here is the conjunction `and'. It implies that
all these things are displayed simultaneously what is rarely true.
Better would be to list all possible things, that can be displayed
in the modeline, with the conjunction `or'.
> What about the patch below, which I can install if desired.
>
> (define-key menu-bar-showhide-menu [showhide-date-time]
> (menu-bar-make-mm-toggle display-time-mode
> ! "Time, Load Averages and Mail"
This menu item is too wide.
A more shorter and still understandable menu item is:
"Time, Load and Mail"
or with `or':
"Time, Date, Load or Mail"
> ! "Display time, system load averages and \
> ! mail status in mode line"))
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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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