I modified my mode-line to appear cleaner. Sadly this prevents compilation buffers from displaying their exit status.
Normaly a failed compilation would display something like:
(Compilation:exit [1])
Through my modifications the the compilation status "exit [1]" is lost.
I defined major and minor modes as following:
(setq my-modeline-major-mode
;; major modes
(list
'(:eval (propertize "%m" 'face 'font-lock-string-face
'help-echo buffer-file-coding-system))))
(setq my-modeline-minor-modes
;; list of minor modes
(list
minor-mode-alist))
The modeline itself is structured as followed:
(setq-default mode-line-format
(list
" ["
my-modeline-major-mode
"]["
my-modeline-minor-modes
"]"
" %-" ;; fill with '-'
))
M-x customize-group compilation didn't provide any help.
You need to include the value of mode-line-process
in your custom mode line. This seems to work:
(setq my-modeline-major-mode
;; major modes
(list
'(:eval (propertize "%m" 'face 'font-lock-string-face
'help-echo buffer-file-coding-system))
'("" mode-line-process)))