title of frame for GNU Emacs 21.3 under OS X (10.2)

title of frame for GNU Emacs 21.3 under OS X (10.2)

[Rodney Sparapani]

I've been trying to change the title of my frame for GNU Emacs 21.3 
under OS X (10.2). The info documentation seems to discuss only X11 and 
Windows, but not Carbon which is how I'm set up (i.e. --without-x 
--with-carbon).  Right now the title is 'Emacs@My-Computer.local'.  I 
know how to change the "My-Computer" part within OS X, but I'm at a loss 
to configure the whole title with Emacs itself.

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Re: title of frame for GNU Emacs 21.3 under OS X (10.2)

[Henrik Enberg]

Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa@mcw.edu> writes:

> I've been trying to change the title of my frame for GNU Emacs 21.3
> under OS X (10.2). The info documentation seems to discuss only X11 and
> Windows, but not Carbon which is how I'm set up (i.e. --without-x
> --with-carbon).  Right now the title is 'Emacs@My-Computer.local'.  I
>   know how to change the "My-Computer" part within OS X, but I'm at a
>   loss to configure the whole title with Emacs itself.

You can change the variable `frame-title-format' to your liking.
`icon-title-format' may also be of interest.

Here's an example that shows "Emacs: /path/to/file.c" if the current
buffer is a real file or "Emacs: buffername" if it's just a buffer.

(setq frame-title-format
      '(:eval (if buffer-file-name
		  "Emacs: %f"
		"Emacs: %b")))

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