tracking.el should support powerline

[jorgenschaefer]

When the powerline extension is used, tracking.el's notifications are not shown. It should have the option to add itself to global-mode-string for this case.

[travisbhartwell]

Is this something I could help with? I don't use circe, but I use weechat-el, which uses tracking.el. I also use Spacemacs which uses Powerline. So getting this to support Powerline would be useful for me.

Is it just the definition of the minor mode that needs changed, in the case of powerline being active, adding the information to global-mode-string instead of mode-line-format?

I'll ping you on IRC, I'm Nafai on #emacs.

[jorgenschaefer]

Thanks for the offer! The current setting of tracking-position will change where tracking-mode will add its indicator to the mode line. I suspect tracking-mode should auto-detect whether powerline is in use and add it to the correct place for powerline, instead of wherever tracking-position would tell it to. This behavior should also be documented in tracking-position.

[bradens]

👍 to this! travis if you need anything I could help out with this as well.

[jorgenschaefer]

Hm. I guess this is blocked by no good way of detecting whether powerline is active or not? Can you do a workaround by either checking if (memq 'mode-line-misc-info mode-line-format) or, alternatively, just providing a new value powerline for tracking-position?

[wasamasa]

The latter sounds better to me as I happen to have mode-line-misc-info in mode-line-format as well although I'm using smart-mode-line.