From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: suggested feature -- console-mode frame title sets Xterm title
Date: 14 Oct 2003 16:56:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo7k38s15y.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031014074430.GN15872@vexed.ozlabs.hp.com>
Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net> writes:
> The problem is in the next paragraph:
>
> `FN' is actually the frame's name. You can also specify a
> different name if you wish, and you can select a frame by its
> name. Use the command `M-x set-frame-name <RET> NAME <RET>' to
> specify a new name for the selected frame, and use `M-x
> select-frame-by-name <RET> NAME <RET>' to select a frame according
> to its name. The name you specify appears in the mode line when
> the frame is selected.
>
> 'F%d' would no longer be the frame's name.
What about just changing `select-frame-by-name' to first check the given
name against a list of `real names', and then if none match, to see if it's
of the form F%d, and if so select a frame by number.
I get the feeling that almost nobody would use the current meaning except
in interactive use (as a handy way to skip directly to a given frame), so
the above workaround would satisfy most people that use that feature.
Adding `select-frame-by-index' might be useful too, but I think the main
concern here is existing users that are used to using select-frame-by-name.
The above sort of compatibility hack might serve as a gentle introduction
to using meaningful names for frames (it even usually picks good
defaults)... :-)
-Miles
--
Suburbia: where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-14 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-14 16:49 suggested feature -- console-mode frame title sets Xterm title Eric Hanchrow
2002-06-15 21:47 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-26 5:04 ` Martin Pool
2003-09-27 2:32 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-29 5:17 ` Martin Pool
2003-10-01 21:21 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-01 21:45 ` Martin Pool
2003-10-02 6:34 ` Martin Pool
2003-10-02 7:00 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-02 8:52 ` Martin Pool
2003-10-02 14:58 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-02 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-03 5:58 ` Martin Pool
[not found] ` <E1A58vH-0002KC-Mq@fencepost.gnu.org>
2003-10-03 1:04 ` Martin Pool
[not found] ` <E1A5p16-0001Wq-3Y@fencepost.gnu.org>
2003-10-14 3:59 ` Martin Pool
2003-10-14 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-14 7:15 ` Martin Pool
2003-10-14 7:29 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-14 7:44 ` Martin Pool
2003-10-14 7:56 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2003-10-14 8:01 ` Martin Pool
2003-10-15 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-14 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-14 9:40 ` Romain FRANCOISE
2003-10-14 9:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-15 4:08 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-15 6:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-15 6:22 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-15 6:36 ` Martin Pool
2003-10-16 14:06 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-16 14:06 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-14 19:32 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-15 2:47 ` Martin Pool
2003-10-15 20:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-16 7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-16 8:25 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-16 8:35 ` Martin Pool
2003-10-16 9:07 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-16 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-16 23:07 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-30 3:03 ` Martin Pool
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