Thanks Nick, Anyone else, I would like to hear how you can keep the currently clocked task in plain site - I use MacOS and Linux, so if there's any OS-specific status software that you recommend let me know.
Thanks, --Nate On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 6:39 PM Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nathan Neff <nathan.n...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hello all, > > > > How can I move the currently clocked task to be on the left side > > of my modeline in emacs? > > > > The way the information ends up in the mode line is a bit convoluted: > > - The main variable is `mode-line-format': you should read its doc > string carefully. > > - `mode-line-format' includes the variable `mode-line-misc-info' > towards the end. > > - `mode-line-misc-info' includes the variable `global-mode-string' > (in a somewhat peculiar way that I don't quite understand). > > - `org-clock-in', `org-clock-out' and `org-clock-cancel' affect the > mode line by modifying the `global-mode-string' variable to append > or delete `org-mode-line-string' to/from it and then forcing a > mode-line update with (drum roll) `force-mode-line-update'. > > - The rest of the org mode code mucks around with `org-mode-line-string' > exclusively. > > In short, there is no way to change the position of the currently > clocked task without rewriting code. You might be able to move > *all* of the org information by modifying an earlier mode-line > component (rather than `global-mode-string' which is part of the > final component). But it would not be trivial. > > -- > Nick > > "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache > invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler > > >
