From: Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Automatically setting buffer name for term buffers
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:43:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prckewdn.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9316c365-935b-4351-aa2b-d2a626a0a74d@r33g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>
Hi!
> When I use an xterm, I can set my shell prompt so that it puts the
> current directory (or whatever..) in the xterm title bar. Is there a
> way I can do this with an emacs term buffer? I would want to change
> the buffer name to something that came from the shell that's executing
> in the buffer. This way, when I look at the buffer list, it would be
> easy to distinguish which term buffer is which. I don't want to have
> to enter the name manually.
Looks like it can be done:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FrameTitle#toc4
I didn't try it, though.
HTH,
Anselm
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Anselm Helbig
mailto:anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-01 6:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-30 22:35 Automatically setting buffer name for term buffers Neil Baylis
2009-07-01 6:43 ` Anselm Helbig [this message]
2009-07-01 18:13 ` Neil Baylis
2009-07-02 8:08 ` Peter Dyballa
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