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Re: should frame names be unique?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: should frame names be unique?
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:47:41 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

>> This said, I wouldn't reject a patch that makes them unique,
> I hope someone provides such a patch.  If it were Lisp, not C, then I might.

I already provided a solution that involves no C code.  Feel free to
improve it.  But, yes, maybe doing it well in Elisp is going to
be difficult.

>> although I'd rather such a patch to only make them unique on a particular
>> terminal, since I often access a single Emacs process from different
>> terminals and would rather have most of my frames suddenly 
>> get all named "foo<2>" just because there's already a "foo" on some
>> other terminal.

> I can't speak to the case for terminals.

I meant "terminal" in the technical sense used in Emacs.  In my case,
most of those "terminals" are X11 displays.


        Stefan




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