evil: mode line tags and state echoing

Vegard Øye vegard_oye at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 31 13:10:10 CET 2011


On 2011-10-29 20:58 +0100, Frank Terbeck wrote:

> There was one thing though, the mode line tags, which didn't quite
> fit into my existing mode line setup. ... I guess my real question
> is: Will the `evil-*-state-tag' stuff be a stable way to configure
> this?

Yes. Most of the properties of a state have their own variables,
such as `evil-STATE-state-tag' for the mode line indicator,
`evil-STATE-state-message' for the echo area message, and
`evil-STATE-state-cursor' for the cursor type.

> The second thing is the echoing of "--- INSERT ---" etc. in the
> mini-buffer when changing states. I understand that it's vim-ish,
> but it distracts me little too much. It'd be great if that could
> be made optional.
>
> Here's a patch which does the trick (although I'm not sure I caught
> all places):

Thank you! Applied in commit 7ee7406.

-- 
Vegard



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