From: Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 13:50:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add mode line element '(:eval FORM)'.
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Add mode line element '(:eval FORM)'.
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index a8fb4ac9e43..4694d0f1d72 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1778,6 +1778,9 @@ The same mechanism is used to determine the `face' and `help-echo'
 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.