Smart Mode Line is a sexy mode-line for Emacs. It aims to be easy to read from small to large monitors by using *colors*, a *prefix feature*, and *smart truncation*. New in v2.5 =========== - Emacs 24.4 compatible. - Integration with [Projectile](https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile)! - Display `current-directory' in Shell and eshell. - New value for `sml/theme': `automatic' (highly recommended). - `sml/apply-theme' is interactive and has completion. - Smart-mode-line themes are now regular themes. Installation === **smart-mode-line** is available on Melpa, and that's the recommended way of installing it. If you do that, you can simply activate it with: (sml/setup) To set the color theme, do one of the following BEFORE `sml/setup`: (setq sml/theme 'dark) (setq sml/theme 'light) (setq sml/theme 'respectful) Features === Its main features include: 1. **Color coded**: Highlights the most important information for you (buffer name, modified state, line number). Don't like the colors? See item *5.*! 2. **Fixed width** (if you want): Lets you set a maxium width for the path name and mode names, and truncates them intelligently (truncates the directory, not the buffer name). Also let's you **right indent** strings in the mode-line (see `sml/mode-width'). 3. **Directory as Prefixes**: Prefix feature saves a LOT of space. e.g. *"~/.emacs.d/"* is translated to *":ED:"* in the path (open a file inside this folder to see it in action). Long path names you are commonly working on are displayed as short abbreviations. Set your own prefixes to make best use of it (by configuring `sml/replacer-regexp-list'). Mousing over the abbreviated path will show you the full path. See below for examples. 4. **Hide or Highlight minor-modes**: The [rich-minority](https://github.com/Malabarba/rich-minority) package saves even more space. Select which minor modes you don't want to see listed by adding them to the variable `rm-excluded-modes', or even highlight the modes that are more important with the variable `rm-text-properties'. This will filter out the modes you don't care about and unclutter the modes list (mousing over the modes list still shows the full list). 4. **Hide minor-modes**: Hidden-modes feature saves even more space. Select which minor modes you don't want to see listed by customizing the `rm-blacklist' variable. This will filter out the modes you don't care about and unclutter the modes list (mousing over the modes list still shows the full list). 5. **Very easy to configure**: All colors and variables are customizable. You can change the whole theme with `sml/apply-theme', or just customize anything manually with `sml/customize' and `sml/customize-faces'. There are *DOZENS* of variables to customize your mode-line, just pop over there and have a look! 6. **Compatible with absolutely anything**: I'm serious. Versions 2.0 and above should be compatible with **any** other packages that display information in the mode-line (evil, nyan-mode, elscreen, display-battery-mode, etc). If you find *ANYTHING* that does not appear as it should, file a bug report and I'll get to it. Important Variables: === All variables can be edited by running `sml/customize', and the documentations are mostly self explanatory, I list here only the most important ones. 1. `sml/theme' Choose what theme you want to use for the mode-line colors. For now there are 3 different themes: `dark', `light', and `respectful'. 1. `sml/shorten-directory' and `sml/shorten-modes' Setting both of these to `t' guarantees a fixed width mode-line (directory name and minor-modes list will be truncated to fit). To actually define the width, see below. 2. `sml/name-width' and `sml/mode-width' Customize these according to the width of your Emacs frame. I set them to `40' and `full' respectively, and the mode-line fits perfectly when the frame is split in two even on my laptop's small 17" monitor. `full' means everything after the minor-modes will be right-indented. 3. `sml/replacer-regexp-list' This variable is a list of (REGEXP REPLACEMENT) that is used to parse the path. The replacements are applied sequentially. This allows you to greatly abbreviate the path that's shown in the mode-line. If this abbreviation is of the form *":SOMETHING:"*, it is considered a prefix and get's a different color (you can change what's considered a prefix by customizing `sml/prefix-regexp'). For example, if you do a lot of work on a folder called *"~/Dropbox/Projects/In-Development/"* almost half the mode-line would be occupied just by the folder name, which is much less important than the buffer name. But, you can't just hide the folder name, since editing a file in *"~/Dropbox/Projects/In-Development/Source"* is VERY different from editting a file in *"~/Dropbox/Projects/Source"*. By setting up a prefix for your commonly used folders, you get all that information without wasting all that space. In this example you could set the replacement to *":ProjDev:"* or just *":InDev:"*, so the path shown in the mode-line will be *":ProjDev:Source/"* (saves a lot of space without hiding information). Here go some more useful examples: (add-to-list 'sml/replacer-regexp-list '("^~/Dropbox/Projects/In-Development/" ":ProjDev:") t) (add-to-list 'sml/replacer-regexp-list '("^~/Documents/Work/" ":Work:") t) ;; Added in the right order, they even work sequentially: (add-to-list 'sml/replacer-regexp-list '("^~/Dropbox/" ":DB:") t) (add-to-list 'sml/replacer-regexp-list '("^:DB:Documents" ":DDocs:") t) (add-to-list 'sml/replacer-regexp-list '("^~/Git-Projects/" ":Git:") t) (add-to-list 'sml/replacer-regexp-list '("^:Git:\\(.*\\)/src/main/java/" ":G/\\1/SMJ:") t)