From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question on frame title
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:26:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fmodroh.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe5daa74-2ee7-4891-be6a-af57d2c60ac2@googlegroups.com>
On 2015-10-15, at 17:26, Benny Sum <benny.sum@gmail.com> wrote:
> I try to run shell-command to retrieve some information on the file and put it in the title frame. But I got some strange behavior:
>
> (setq frame-title-format
> (list (format "%s" (shell-command-to-string(concat "ls -1 " " %b ")))))
>
> But it says ls: cannot access filename: No such file or directory on the title frame.
>
> It seems the filename is correct, but not sure why cannot access it. Is it due to the white space returned from the %b?
>
> Anyone has a example code to run a shell-command on %b in frame-title-format?
Do I get it correctly that "ls" gets a literal "%b" and has no idea what
to do with it?
What do you want to achieve that (setq frame-title-format "%f") doesn't do?
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
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2015-10-15 15:26 Question on frame title Benny Sum
2015-10-15 16:26 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
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2015-10-15 16:43 ` Benny Sum
2015-10-15 17:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-10-15 17:30 ` Random832
2015-10-15 17:49 ` Random832
[not found] ` <mailman.405.1444931478.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-16 11:05 ` Benny Sum
2015-10-16 13:35 ` Random832
[not found] ` <mailman.455.1445002561.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-16 18:15 ` Benny Sum
2015-10-16 19:14 ` Benny Sum
[not found] ` <mailman.402.1444930342.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-15 23:08 ` Benny Sum
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