From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: find-file-visit-truename
Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 21:51:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJcAo8uRbL-PCOUvp39-keZVSoKAht5GxEcKmvWCMJkP3a-uvA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mt1ngufg.fsf@gnu.org>
more below.
On 5/29/23, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> By contrast, the default mode line shows the _buffer_ name, not the
> _file_ name. If you want to see the file name, you need to customize
> mode-line-buffer-identification to show that; by default it uses %b,
> which shows the buffer name. I suspect that this is how it used to
i tried f and it showd a full path name. i'm not sure if a full path
name is always needed? can a basename suffice?
i do seem to recall the truename showing there but who knows.
> work for you in previous versions of Emacs, since the code which shows
> the buffer identification on the mode line hasn't changed in decades.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-31 4:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-29 4:15 find-file-visit-truename Samuel Wales
2023-05-29 13:04 ` find-file-visit-truename Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-31 4:51 ` Samuel Wales [this message]
2023-05-31 5:43 ` find-file-visit-truename Samuel Wales
2023-05-31 12:03 ` find-file-visit-truename Eli Zaretskii
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