From: Wang Lei <f3d27b@gmail.com>
To: filebat Mark <filebat.mark@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Postfixing ' emacs' to all frame titles.
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:30:16 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=QKv+cw+_ySvaxGei5Q7GiAjSbHcmfopW_7b5r@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimQ39jSx21cOAqCP+5fzDBqEmxPLHbQ-k-jPxn_@mail.gmail.com>
On 7/31/10, filebat Mark <filebat.mark@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Lennart
>
> I tried (setq frame-title-format "%f - Emacs"), it's cool.
>
> However, the full filename of "%f" is usually too long.
> Can I truncate the string with fixed length?
>
> Regards,
> Denny
You can try this.
(setq frame-title-format '(:eval (concat (if (< 10 (length buffer-file-name))
(concat (substring buffer-file-name 0 6) "...")
buffer-file-name)
"- Emacs")))
I assume 10 is the max length of filename than you want to.
>
> On 7/28/10, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Kevin Rodgers
>> <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Tim Visher wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi everyone,
>> >>
>> >> I'm wondering if there's a simple way to postfix ' emacs' to all frame
>> >> titles without resorting to [elisp from the web][1]. Couldn't find
>> >> anything in Chapter 25 but I didn't search much harder than that.
>> >>
>> >> [1]: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FrameTitle
>> >
>> > No, you need to use Emacs Lisp: that is the "format" of customizations
>> > in ~/.emacs (M-x customize notwithstanding).
>> >
>> > Here's what I use:
>> >
>> > (setq frame-title-format
>> > '("" invocation-name "-" emacs-version "@" system-name ":"
>> > (buffer-file-name "%f" "%b")))
>>
>>
>>
>> In EmacsW32 I use
>>
>> (setq frame-title-format "%b - Emacs")
>>
>> This is probably what people on ms windows expect. Is that what people
>> on other GUI systems expect as well?
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Denny Zhang
>
--
Regards,
Lei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-31 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-27 15:45 Postfixing ' emacs' to all frame titles Tim Visher
2010-07-28 13:14 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-07-28 13:23 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-29 7:13 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-07-29 11:59 ` Tim Visher
2010-07-31 3:41 ` filebat Mark
2010-07-31 7:30 ` Wang Lei [this message]
2010-07-31 9:40 ` filebat Mark
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2010-07-27 17:02 ` Ilya Zakharevich
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