* Re: Postfixing ' emacs' to all frame titles. [not found] <mailman.2.1280245551.14022.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> @ 2010-07-27 17:02 ` Ilya Zakharevich 0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Ilya Zakharevich @ 2010-07-27 17:02 UTC (permalink / raw To: help-gnu-emacs On 2010-07-27, Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> 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 I'm using (setq need-app-name-in-title (not (eq window-system 'pm))) (setq frame-title-format '((need-app-name-in-title "Emacs: " "") ;; contains "Emacs: " for special buffers ;; mode-line-buffer-identification (buffer-file-name ;; "%f" mode-line-buffer-identification ;;; (:eval (mode-line-replace-regexp-in-alist-with-prop ;;; buffer-file-name ;;; mode-line-abbreviation-alist ;;; (car mode-line-buffer-identification))) "%b"))) (This may or may not be dependent on mode-line.el which provides meaningful buffer names.) Hope this helps, Ilya ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Postfixing ' emacs' to all frame titles. @ 2010-07-27 15:45 Tim Visher 2010-07-28 13:14 ` Kevin Rodgers 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Tim Visher @ 2010-07-27 15:45 UTC (permalink / raw To: emacs 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 Thanks in advance! -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://blog.twonegatives.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Postfixing ' emacs' to all frame titles. 2010-07-27 15:45 Tim Visher @ 2010-07-28 13:14 ` Kevin Rodgers 2010-07-28 13:23 ` Lennart Borgman 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2010-07-28 13:14 UTC (permalink / raw To: help-gnu-emacs 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"))) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Postfixing ' emacs' to all frame titles. 2010-07-28 13:14 ` Kevin Rodgers @ 2010-07-28 13:23 ` Lennart Borgman 2010-07-29 7:13 ` Kevin Rodgers 2010-07-31 3:41 ` filebat Mark 0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Lennart Borgman @ 2010-07-28 13:23 UTC (permalink / raw To: Kevin Rodgers; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs 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? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Postfixing ' emacs' to all frame titles. 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 1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2010-07-29 7:13 UTC (permalink / raw To: help-gnu-emacs Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Kevin Rodgers > <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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? I am stuck on Microsoft Windows at work, and there I expect (just like a different proprietary platform I use at home): * to know which version of Emacs is actually running (emacs-version); * to know whether it is running on my local desktop or a remote server e.g. via RDP or Xming (system-name); * to know whether the buffer is visiting a file or not; and if so, what the full path is to a file (%f); otherwise, what Emacs has named it (%b). -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Postfixing ' emacs' to all frame titles. 2010-07-29 7:13 ` Kevin Rodgers @ 2010-07-29 11:59 ` Tim Visher 0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Tim Visher @ 2010-07-29 11:59 UTC (permalink / raw To: Kevin Rodgers; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs Thanks everyone. Exactly what I was looking for. On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote: > Lennart Borgman wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Kevin Rodgers >> <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> 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? > > I am stuck on Microsoft Windows at work, and there I expect (just like > a different proprietary platform I use at home): > > * to know which version of Emacs is actually running (emacs-version); > > * to know whether it is running on my local desktop or a remote server > e.g. via RDP or Xming (system-name); > > * to know whether the buffer is visiting a file or not; and if so, > what the full path is to a file (%f); otherwise, what Emacs has > named it (%b). > > -- > Kevin Rodgers > Denver, Colorado, USA > > > -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://blog.twonegatives.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Postfixing ' emacs' to all frame titles. 2010-07-28 13:23 ` Lennart Borgman 2010-07-29 7:13 ` Kevin Rodgers @ 2010-07-31 3:41 ` filebat Mark 2010-07-31 7:30 ` Wang Lei 1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: filebat Mark @ 2010-07-31 3:41 UTC (permalink / raw To: Lennart Borgman; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs, Kevin Rodgers [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1196 bytes --] 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? > > -- Thanks & Regards Denny Zhang [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1938 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Postfixing ' emacs' to all frame titles. 2010-07-31 3:41 ` filebat Mark @ 2010-07-31 7:30 ` Wang Lei 2010-07-31 9:40 ` filebat Mark 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Wang Lei @ 2010-07-31 7:30 UTC (permalink / raw To: filebat Mark; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Postfixing ' emacs' to all frame titles. 2010-07-31 7:30 ` Wang Lei @ 2010-07-31 9:40 ` filebat Mark 0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: filebat Mark @ 2010-07-31 9:40 UTC (permalink / raw To: Wang Lei; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 3147 bytes --] Thanks, Lei, your code works. And I has extended it to a lisp codesnnipet, which is exactly what I want. I post it here, in case others need it. Notice: There is an enhancement here, which is replacing setq with local variables. I tried to do this, but has failed, due to my poor lisp. Since this is a minor issue for me, so I keep lazy here. ^-^ ;; -------------------------- separator -------------------------- (setq frame-title-format '(:eval (concat "Ask 5 why, Denny! -- " (buffer-name) " -- " (progn (if buffer-file-name (setq buffer_name_str buffer-file-name) (setq buffer_name_str "")) (if (< (length buffer_name_str) 50) buffer_name_str (concat (substring buffer_name_str 0 20) "..." (substring buffer_name_str (- (length buffer_name_str) 30) (length buffer_name_str)) )))))) ;; -------------------------- separator -------------------------- Regards, Denny On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Wang Lei <f3d27b@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Thanks & Regards Denny Zhang [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 4580 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
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