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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- This manual is for Stand-alone GNU Info (version 6.7, 23 September 2019), a program for viewing documents in Info format (usually created from Texinfo source files). Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License" in the Texinfo manual. This document is part of a collection distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License. If you want to distribute this document separately from the collection, you can do so by adding a copy of the license to the document, as described in section 6 of the license. --> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.7, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>The Mode Line (Stand-alone GNU Info 6.7)</title> <meta name="description" content="The Mode Line (Stand-alone GNU Info 6.7)"> <meta name="keywords" content="The Mode Line (Stand-alone GNU Info 6.7)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Index.html" rel="index" title="Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Window-Commands.html" rel="up" title="Window Commands"> <link href="Basic-Windows.html" rel="next" title="Basic Windows"> <link href="Window-Commands.html" rel="prev" title="Window Commands"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <span id="The-Mode-Line"></span><div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Basic-Windows.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Basic Windows</a>, Up: <a href="Window-Commands.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Window Commands</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="The-Mode-Line-1"></span><h3 class="section">9.1 The Mode Line</h3> <p>A <em>mode line</em> is a line of inverse video which appears at the bottom of an Info window. It describes the contents of the window just above it; this information includes the name of the file and node appearing in that window, the number of screen lines it takes to display the node, and the percentage of text that is above the top of the window. </p> <p>Here is a sample mode line for a window containing a file named <samp>dir</samp>, showing the node ‘<samp>Top</samp>’. </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">-----Info: (dir)Top, 40 lines --Top------------------------------------- ^^ ^ ^^^ ^^ (file)Node #lines where </pre></div> <p>Truncation of long lines (as opposed to wrapping them to the next display line, see <a href="Scrolling-Commands.html">toggle-wrap</a>) is indicated by a ‘<samp>$</samp>’ at the left edge of the mode line: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">--$--Info: (texinfo)Top, 480 lines --Top-------------------------------- </pre></div> <p>When Info makes a node internally, such that there is no corresponding info file on disk, the name of the node is surrounded by asterisks (‘<samp>*</samp>’). The name itself tells you what the contents of the window are; the sample mode line below shows an internally constructed node showing possible completions: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">-----Info: *Completions*, 7 lines --All--------------------------------- </pre></div> </body> </html>