# HG changeset patch
# User Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
# Date 941809851 0
# Node ID d2970b5d3b720ad6e065a70ef3b8608fc9eb046e
# Parent  64092bd2c934c06620f614af85e1adb575d6fac5
Add mode line element '(:eval FORM)'.

diff -r 64092bd2c934 -r d2970b5d3b72 etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Fri Nov 05 13:46:32 1999 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Fri Nov 05 13:50:51 1999 +0000
@@ -1778,6 +1778,9 @@
 properties of strings in the mode line.  See `bindings.el' for an
 example.
 
+*** If a mode line element has the form `(:eval FORM)', FORM is
+evaluated and the result is used as mode line element.
+
 +++
 *** You can suppress mode-line display by setting the buffer-local
 variable mode-line-format to nil.