* Frame symbol in the mode line on a windowing system
@ 2007-07-21 18:11 Dieter Wilhelm
2007-07-21 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Dieter Wilhelm @ 2007-07-21 18:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hi
Does anybody have code to display Frame names or numbers or symbols in
the mode line on an (X-)Window system? I do not see on which frame
I'm working when in fullscreen mode and in terminal mode there are
hints F1, F2, etc.
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
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* Re: Frame symbol in the mode line on a windowing system
2007-07-21 18:11 Frame symbol in the mode line on a windowing system Dieter Wilhelm
@ 2007-07-21 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-25 0:34 ` Dieter Wilhelm
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2007-07-21 19:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:11:04 +0200
>
> Does anybody have code to display Frame names or numbers or symbols in
> the mode line on an (X-)Window system? I do not see on which frame
> I'm working when in fullscreen mode and in terminal mode there are
> hints F1, F2, etc.
F1, F2, etc. are _not_ hints, they are actual names of the frames on a
tty. You can change that with the set-frame-name commands (and later
switch to a frame with a specific name with select-frame-by-name).
I think %F is what you want -- it's replaced with the frame name.
Emacs uses the variable mode-line-frame-identification for it, which
is computed differently on X and on a tty.
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* Re: Frame symbol in the mode line on a windowing system
2007-07-21 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2007-07-25 0:34 ` Dieter Wilhelm
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From: Dieter Wilhelm @ 2007-07-25 0:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
>> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:11:04 +0200
>>
>> Does anybody have code to display Frame names or numbers or symbols in
>> the mode line on an (X-)Window system? I do not see on which frame
>> I'm working when in fullscreen mode and in terminal mode there are
>> hints F1, F2, etc.
>
> F1, F2, etc. are _not_ hints, they are actual names of the frames on a
> tty. You can change that with the set-frame-name commands (and later
> switch to a frame with a specific name with select-frame-by-name).
>
> I think %F is what you want -- it's replaced with the frame name.
> Emacs uses the variable mode-line-frame-identification for it, which
> is computed differently on X and on a tty.
Hi Eli
Thanks again for the hint. It might be helpful when
(info-other-window "(elisp)%-Constructs")
would mention that the %-constructs are not always working when used
in a string like this
(setq mode-line-frame-identification "-%F ") ; this is here not working
but rather in a list
(setq mode-line-frame-identification '("-%F "))
I found it finally documented for the variable mode-line-format. For
somebody using them for the first time its not immediately obvious.
Just my two €Cents.
Dieter
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
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