Re: hostname and filename as frame title

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Michael,

On Friday 12 February 2010 01:35 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>  writes:
> > 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)))))

Works wonders! I am on Emacs 23.1. ;)

However because of all the different machines and different usernames, I 
rely on my ~/.ssh/config to specify the username on the remote machine. 
So I open a remote file like this,

`/ssh:remote-host-alias:/path/to/file'

Probably that is why the frame title shows up as,

`local-user@remote-host:file'

But I think I can live with that. Thanks a lot Michael. :)

> Best regards, Michael.

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Suvayu

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