Variable: mode-line-in-non-selected-windows

mode-line-in-non-selected-windows is a customizable variable defined in window.c.

Value

t

Documentation

Non-nil means to use mode-line-inactive face in non-selected windows.

If the minibuffer is active, the minibuffer-scroll-window mode line is displayed in the mode-line face.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 22.1.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 22.1.

Source Code

// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/window.c
  DEFVAR_BOOL ("mode-line-in-non-selected-windows", mode_line_in_non_selected_windows,
	       doc: /* Non-nil means to use `mode-line-inactive' face in non-selected windows.
If the minibuffer is active, the `minibuffer-scroll-window' mode line
is displayed in the `mode-line' face.  */);