From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: suggested feature -- console-mode frame title sets Xterm title Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:32:33 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87r8j9n6v4.fsf@blarg.net> <200206152147.g5FLlUB10968@aztec.santafe.edu> <20030929051617.GB7359@vexed.ozlabs.hp.com> <20031002063338.GA25969@vexed.ozlabs.hp.com> <20031003010404.GB1259@sourcefrog.net> <20031014035931.GH15872@vexed.ozlabs.hp.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066160536 2382 80.91.224.253 (14 Oct 2003 19:42:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:42:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 14 21:42:14 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A9V3e-0002pq-00 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:42:14 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A9V3d-0004Hl-00 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:42:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A9V0T-0002ia-BZ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:38:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A9UzO-0002Xx-19 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:37:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A9Uxg-0002Bv-9U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:36:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A9Uxf-0002BL-Bh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:36:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1A9UuH-0006e7-NC; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:32:33 -0400 Original-To: Martin Pool In-reply-to: <20031014035931.GH15872@vexed.ozlabs.hp.com> (message from Martin Pool on Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:59:33 +1000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17092 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17092 I've thought about this and I can't think of a completely satisfactory way to reconcile the differences between window-system and text frames in the existing documented behaviour. A frame has a name field and a title field. select-frame-by-name uses the name field. Can't this feature operate in a way that avoids changing the name field? Adding a new field to the frame structure is ok. Can you solve it that way?