This might be an issue of design so it might not be my place to say,
but I would suggest the feature should not set the variable at all.
The "File->Open..." dialog does not, nor does "Motion->Goto Line..."
Just my opinion...thanks
Ken Engel
>To: Kenneth Engel <engel(a)cocteau.EBay.Sun.COM>
>Cc: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org
>Subject: Re: search from menu puts "Search" on all frames' title bars
>From: Jan Vroonhof <jan.vroonhof(a)ntlworld.com>
>Date: 18 Mar 2001 23:28:26 +0100
>User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.2 (Thelxepeia (GTK Inside))
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>
>Kenneth Engel <engel(a)cocteau.EBay.Sun.COM> writes:
>
>> So the title bar contains the name of the buffer where the cursor is active
>> (if you have 2 or more per frame).
>> Ditto for the icon.
>>
>> I selected Edit->Find... from the menu (I was lazy that day:) which brought
up
>> the Search dialog. Simultaneously, *all* my frames' title bars acquired the
>> title "Search". The icon names remained the name of the buffer.
>>
>> Changing buffers, opening other dialogs, even creating new frames - nothing
>> changes this state. The "Search" title remains on all frames until I quit.
>
>You are right. This is because make-dialog-box simply setq's this
>variable.
>
>The only problem is, I cannot seem to fix it :-( Making the variable
>buffer local doesn't work. Changing it into a specifier should work,
>but I cannot get it to behave like it should...
>
>Jan
>
Ken
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"If Microsoft can't keep its own servers up and running, why should anybody
trust Redmond to make good on the rest of its ambitious Internet agenda?"
Charles Cooper, ZDNet