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

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?
>
>


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Thanks & Regards

Denny Zhang