Best way to edit mode-line?
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Magicaldave918 · 2022-10-13 21:37

Hey all, I recently posted about getting vuiet set up in my emacs.
After getting it working completely, I have an issue that I think is
specific to Spacemacs...
Vuiet is supposed to show playing track information on the modeline -
right about where you’d normally have line/char line counts.
Mine very rarely does this; I haven’t exactly pinned it down, but SOME
buffers will actually show this information.
It doesn’t seem to be vuiet-specific ones exactly, but I think that
might be it.

I’d really appreciate any suggestions for where I could look to pull
that info out of vuiet and add it to my modeline.

I tried placing (vuiet-update-mode-line) in the modeline config
variable (forget the exact name) but that didn’t help.

Sometimes when I run the command manually I can actually see it for
what looks like a frame or two.

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Danrobi1 · 2022-10-14 05:45

Have a look at my [modeline config](https://codeberg.org/danrobi/dotfi
les/src/branch/main/emacs/mode-line-text-align-right#L42). You didnt
show us any code tho. Did you tried with `:eval`?

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Magicaldave918 · 2022-10-14 10:04

Well... no - it’s meant to be ran interactively. I get nothing at all
if I attempt to run the function from `M-:`
But I’ll take a look at your config, that’ll be an excellent place to
start!

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arthurno1 · 2022-10-15 06:42

Probably the best thing would be to [take a look at how modeline
works, modeling format
etc](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Mode-
Line-Format.html).