From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Modernize frame-title-format: "%b - GNU Emacs" Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 01:26:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <> <> <> <> <> <> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="656"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefan@marxist.se, cloos@jhcloos.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 31 07:26:58 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kCcLJ-000AbU-GR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 07:26:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57424 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kCcLI-0000Iw-F9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 01:26:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35252) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kCcKs-0008Ju-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 01:26:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50758) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kCcKp-00020t-MO; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 01:26:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kCcKp-0004Zz-8W; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 01:26:27 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 28 Aug 2020 12:16:40 -0700 (PDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:254434 Archived-At: > You are the first person to say that `invocation-name' is important to > keep. Would like to expand on the use-case you have in mind, and why > you think it is important to keep as the default? > > I can think of one situation, when running multiple emacs:en of > different version. E.g, development versions or when you wish to run > an older or newer version. 1. `invocation-name' doesn't tell you anything about the Emacs version, AFAICT. Since emacs is normally installed using a version name as well, it can tell you that. 2. As Eli would presumably point out [*], users who have installed multiple Emacs versions are uncommon, and those of them who run more than one version at the same time are even more uncommon. (I'm one of them, FWIW.) Debian installs Emacs as emacs-version, and often also emacs-snapshot for a later one. It is also common to have a X11, non-X11, GTK, etc versions. If installing multiple Emacs versions is uncommon, why is it the default way that Emacs gets installed and has been installed since time begun?