Re: Displaying a different font on the mode-line

Its not consistent with other implementations.  In linux, it shows the
face.  Also in cygwin it shows the face.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:38 AM Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:

> > From: Matthew Fidler <[email protected]>
> > Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:14:12 +0000
> >
> > I cannot display a different font for a character on the mode-line when
> using windows 32 implementation of
> > emacs. Is this a known issue?
>
> Every string you put in the mode line must use a single face for all
> its characters; Emacs only takes notice of the face of the first
> character of each string.  This is done for efficiency reasons, as the
> mode line is redrawn very frequently.
>
> So if you want to use a different font, you should construct the mode
> line "creatively", taking care not to use strings that have different
> faces on some of its characters.
>