Every so often I get the urge to change how Emacs looks. Ever since Ifinally fell to the darkside, my Emacshas stayed looking pretty much the same. I like how it looks, but I do keephaving this urge to find a darker theme, and to also make things just a weebit more minimal.At one point I was very much about, and in favour of, having as muchinformation as possible in the modeline.Eventually I realised I didn't use that much and tried to decluttersomewhat, mostly cleaning up minor mode information withdiminish.Even then though, I had this feeling that there was still more informationin the mode line than I really needed.So, just now, as an experiment, I've decided to start fairly clean. I'vedropped powerline and insteaddecided to have a play withmood-line. Rather than use oneof its pre-configured formats, I've had a go at rolling my own:(setq mood-line-format (mood-line-defformat :left (((mood-line-segment-buffer-status) . " ") ((mood-line-segment-buffer-name) . " : ") (mood-line-segment-major-mode)) :right (((mood-line-segment-vc) . " ") (mood-line-segment-cursor-position))))So far I'm really pleased with the result.For any given buffer the mode line display is now:The status of the bufferThe name of the bufferThe major mode of the bufferThe git status for what I'm working onThe cursor positionHonestly, I'm struggling to think of anything else I really need to see.Sure, I can imagine there's the odd minor mode I might need to know about,but generally I either have them enabled all the time anyway, or it'ssomething so obvious that I know when it's not enabled.I'm going to run with this for a while now and see how I feel. I can sensethat I might want to tweak a couple of things (at the moment the left-handside will move when I change the unsaved status of the buffer; on the rightthere's nothing that tells me that this file I'm editing right now is new tothe repo and not part of it yet), but this basic configuration feels cleanand right.Meanwhile... the search for a theme that isdarker and I actually prefer over the sanityinc-tomorrowthemescontinues. I fear this is going to be a lot harder.