Re: hostname and filename as frame title

[Suvayu Ali]

On Friday 12 February 2010 01:35 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>  writes:
>
> > Hi everyone,
>
> Hi,
>
> > I do a lot of remote editing on several remote machines. I recently
> > came across the variable `frame-title-format' and was wondering if
> > there is a way to set the hostname of the file being edited and the
> > file name as the frame title? Something like file@remote-host.
> >
> > I don't even know where to start looking, any pointers would be awesome. :)
>
> What about this:
>
> (setq-default
>   frame-title-format
>   '(:eval
>     (format "%s@%s:%s"
>            (or (file-remote-p default-directory 'user) user-login-name)
>            (or (file-remote-p default-directory 'host) system-name)
>            (file-name-nondirectory (or (buffer-file-name) default-directory)))))

I ended up using something like this. This sets the frame-title to just 
the buffer-name for special buffers and uses the buffer name as set by 
uniquify when visiting files with same names. Maybe some one else will 
find this useful.

> (setq-default
>  frame-title-format
>  '(:eval
>    (if (string-match-p "^\\*.+\\*$" (buffer-name))
>        "%b"
>      (format "%s:%s"
>              (or (file-remote-p default-directory 'host) system-name)
>              (buffer-name)))))

:)
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Suvayu

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