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From: michael@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Getting hostname on status line.
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Date: 23 Oct 89 09:09:05 GMT
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In-reply-to: lih@CUNIXC.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Andrew Lih)

In article <8910032315.AA10699@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu>, lih@CUNIXC (Andrew Lih) writes:
>On our EMACS version 18.52.24, you can just use the following:
>
>(setq host (system-name))
>
>(setq default-mode-line-format (quote (" " host " -%*- " "%b " global-mode-string mode-line-time-string " [" (-3 . "%p") "]" " %[(" mode-name minor-mode-alist mode-line-process ") %]")))

But that doesn't work from within .emacs. Could anybody comment how to
get the hostname in the status line from .emacs?
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    Michael Schmidt, Universitaet-GH Paderborn, FB 17, Warburger Str.100,
                     D-4790 Paderborn, West Germany
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