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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> 
> William Perry <wmperry@spry.com> writes:
> 
> >   You can with 19.14 - I can whip up the sample code, but you can look at
> > ..../lisp/prim/modeline.el for some examples.
> 
> The only way to display a glyph is to use the
> annotation/set-extent-{begin,end}-glyph thingies, right?  But it seems
> to me that the extents used for these things have to be in some
> buffer, while the modeline extents typically have been created as
> `(make-extent nil nil)'.  I have a feeling I'm misunderstanding
> something fundamental here...

  you can attach a glyph to a portion of the modeline by making a
portion of it a cons cell of (glyph . string), like:

(setq modeline-format (list (cons (make-glyph "woman") "foo")))

sorry I waswn't a little clearer earlier.

-bill P.