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From: lloyd!sunfs3!geoff@HSCFVAX.HARVARD.EDU (Geoffrey Knauth)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: view mode, mode line, too many [[[]]]
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Date: 24 Feb 89 16:02:28 GMT
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"GNU Emacs 18.49.8 of Wed Oct 14 1987 on sunfs3 (berkeley-unix)"

I have am currently viewing 2 files, as well as sending this message.
My mode line looks like this:

  --**-Emacs: *mail*              10:47am 0.28[5]   [[[(Mail)]]]----All-------

Note the extra [[ ]] around [(Mail)].  It seems that for each file or
buffer I am currently viewing, whether visible or not, I get an extra
[ ] around the mode name on all of my mode lines.