The modeline is really noisy. The prettier ones add like 300ms to my emacs start-up time. feline-mode is not noisy, it loads almost instantly.

With the built in mode-line the global-mode-string is usually pushed right off the edge of the screen by minor modes. feline-mode does not show minor modes.

feline-mode shows the following items:

• *, if the buffer is modified
• the major mode (which can be aliased to save space)
• the buffer name
• the current project.el project, if there is one
• the line and column (looks like L17C34)
• the global-mode-string (useful details from other modes)
• evil state, if you use evil

Configuration

Install it however you like! download it and put it in your load-path, or point elpaca at this repo.

there are options. there are faces. see M-x customize-group feline :)

Example config

(use-package feline
  :config (feline-mode)
  :custom
  (feline-line-prefix "L")
  (feline-column-prefix "C")
  (feline-mode-symbols
   '(emacs-lisp-mode "λ"
     python-mode "py"
     typescript-mode "ts"
     rustic-mode "🦀"
     rust-mode "🦀"
     zig-mode "🦎"
     scheme-mode "🐔")))`