Thank you for the replies so far. Michael's idea looks promising: one could put something like an emacs frame in there with the mode-line text in it; perhaps that's the best solution.
I kind of like my current mode-line as well, though, with its simplicity and the obvious Emacs heritage. So I might just see, when I get time of course, if I can just change the positioning and sizing code in resize-mode-line and do something with update-mode-line-position to allow for a fixed-width vertical mode-line at the right or left. The formatting, such as whether text fits in the available width would be up to the user to sort out. Incidentally, I see that there is a *mode-line-position* variable that does lead to its being placed at the bottom when set to :bottom; so just need to add :left and :right options. Yours sincerely, -- Jim Ottaway _______________________________________________ Stumpwm-devel mailing list Stumpwm-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/stumpwm-devel
