Is replacing minor mode with bitmap possible? about dim.el

[alezost]

Sorry, I don't understand what you are asking about. What bitmap do you mean and how can it replace a minor mode? This sounds mysterious to me 😄

BTW the stable mepla shield in README is broken.

And I don't understand this as well. What "melpa shield" is?

[casouri]

Sorry 😄 I mean bitmap pictures, is that easy to implement?

And by the shield I mean the tags on the first line, the melpa one was broken yesterday.

[alezost]

Sorry 😄 I mean bitmap pictures, is that easy to implement?

There is nothing to implement. I mean, it is a usual emacs
feature and it should work right away. You just need to put
whatever mode-line construct you want instead of a string and
that's it! For example:

(setq my-text-mode-name
      (propertize "text" 'display (create-image "back-arrow.xpm")))
(put 'my-text-mode-name 'risky-local-variable t) ; needed to make images work
(dim-major-name 'text-mode 'my-text-mode-name)

Evaluate the above code and open any buffer in text-mode. You
should see the back-arrow icon (that comes with Emacs).

Or you can make your own icon if you wish, for example:

(defvar my-smile-icon
  `(image :type xpm :ascent center :data "! XPM2
16 14 2 1
# c yellow
. c black
################
################
###..######..###
##....####....##
###..######..###
################
#######..#######
#######..#######
##.##########.##
###..######..###
####...##...####
######....######
################
################
"))

(put 'my-smile-icon 'risky-local-variable t)
(dim-major-name 'emacs-lisp-mode
                (propertize "smile" 'display my-smile-icon))

(this will work only if your X Window System supports XPM2, which is the case if you use GNU/Linux distro)

And by the shield I mean the tags on the first line, the melpa one was broken yesterday.

Ah, apparently, it was some problem on MELPA.

Let me know if you have any problems or questions on what I wrote.

[casouri]

Thanks!