Re: Mac - why no proxy badge for dired mode?

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "YAMAMOTO" == YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> On 02 Nov 2006 12:13:03 -0800, address@hidden (Randal L. Schwartz) said:
>> However, there's no such "proxy icon" for a dired buffer.  Just the
>> "address@hidden" in the title bar.  I spent about 20 minutes poking
>> through the mac-specific code and the file-visiting code, but I
>> didn't see anything that hooks the two together.  Can someone who
>> knows more about carbon apps than I do please look at this and help
>> me make it work?

YAMAMOTO> It's not under the control of Lisp.  It is set by
YAMAMOTO> mac_update_proxy_icon in macfns.c according to the value of
YAMAMOTO> buffer-file-name of the buffer of the selected window.

Wow.  In a dired buffer in Carbon Emacs, I just executed
the following:

        (setq buffer-file-name ".")

And it did exactly the right expected useful thing: a badge was created that
represented the current directory, and I could command-click on the title bar
to see the filepath to the directory and select parent directories.

The question is, will this break anything else?  Can we make this a global
change, or at least a change on carbon emacs?

I know that I could personally add a hook that does this.  I'm just thinking
out loud for everyone.

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