Emacs 24: Mode-Line Style

Question

I am trying to change the styling of the modeline in emacs 24.

I want to add an overline and an underline. Underline works fine, but overline is not working for some reason. Here is my code so far (added to .emacs):

(set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil
   :foreground "gray0"
   :background "cyan"
   :overline "cyan"
   :underline "cyan")

Any ideas on how to get the overline working?

Also is there a way to set the distance between the borders and text?

Thanks

Answer 1

If I remember correctly, the default mode-line spec has a non-nil :box spec, so it might solve your problem to add the line :box nil to your code listed above.