The mode line is at the bottom of every Emacs Window aside from MiniBuffer windows.[1] It has useful summary information about the buffer shown in the window, including its name and current modes.
Here is a screenshot that shows three windows with their mode lines:
For complete information on the contents of mode lines, see mode line in the EmacsManual. The information in a mode line usually includes the following:
**
– modified since last save--
– not modified since last save%*
– read-only, but modified%%
– read-only, not modified *Help*
and drews-lisp-20
are read-only (unmodified); buffer shrink-fit.el
is writable and unmodified. shrink-fit.el
is in major mode Emacs-Lisp
(and in no minor mode). In Emacs 22, you can click the major-mode and minor-mode names for additional behavior. [(Emacs-Lisp)]
– then you are in a recursive edit. You may want to do `C-]
’ (command ‘abort-recursive-edit’
) to get out of it. ‘C0’
) of line 234 (‘L234’
) of buffer shrink-fit.el
.‘Top’
– the beginning of the buffer is shown in the window‘Bot’
– the end of the buffer is shown in the window‘All’
– all of the buffer is shown in the window48%
of buffer shrink-fit.el
is not shown.-
– no code conversion, except possibly end-of-line translation=
– no code conversion or end-of-line translation1
– ISO Latin 1 code conversion-
). (Unix)
– newline character separates lines(DOS)
or \
– carriage-return plus linefeed separates lines(MAC)
or /
– carriage-return separates lines (Unix)
).See also ModeLineConfiguration.
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