Re: some comments on the gutter

dv> Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com&gt; wrote: dv> Maybe under tty's, but not under a window system. In that dv> case, we should rather fix the frame title which currently dv> says "emacs:...". I agree, Didier. FWIW, here is the result of my severe fiddling with modeline-format and frame-title-format which, believe it or not, I actually use since a few weeks! Adrian (defconst modeline-buffer-identification (list (cons modeline-buffer-id-left-extent (purecopy "%N")) ; this used to be "XEmacs:" (cons modeline-buffer-id-right-extent (purecopy "%17b"))) "Modeline control for identifying the buffer being displayed. Its default value is \"XEmacs: %17b\" (NOT!). Major modes that edit things other than ordinary files may change this (e.g. Info, Dired,...)") ;;; (defconst modeline-buffer-identification "") (setq-default modeline-format (list (purecopy "") ;;; 'modeline-multibyte-status ;;; (purecopy '(line-number-mode "-L%l-")) ;;; (purecopy '(column-number-mode "C%c")) ;;; (cons modeline-modified-extent 'modeline-modified) (cons modeline-modified-extent "-%1*%1+-") (cons modeline-buffer-id-extent 'modeline-buffer-identification) (purecopy " ") 'global-mode-string (purecopy " %[(") (cons modeline-minor-mode-extent (list "" 'mode-name 'minor-mode-alist)) (cons modeline-narrowed-extent "%n") 'modeline-process (purecopy ")%]----") (purecopy '(-3 . "%p")) (purecopy "-%-"))) ;;; ;; override the default value defined in loaddefs.el. ;;; (setq-default modeline-format ;;; (cons (purecopy "") ;;; (cons 'modeline-multibyte-status ;;; (cdr modeline-format)))) (setq frame-title-format (format "XEmacs%s----%%C----L%%l-C%%c----%%b----PID %d----%%s----%s" emacs-program-version (emacs-pid) (user-login-name)))