Re: [O] [PATCH] Option for clock and timer to be displayed in frame-title

[Nick Dokos]

Jos'h Fuller <Jos'address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> > Can you change the frame title by doing (setq
> > frame-title-format ...) on Windows emacs normally?  
> 
> Just to let you know, I am using Windows Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.2.3790)
> 
> I tried:
> 
>   (setq-frame-title-format "This is a test.")
> 

The correct invocation is

   (setq frame-title-format "This is a test.")

frame-title-format is a variable.

Nick

> in the *scratch* window and got:
> 
>   Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function setq-frame-title-format)
>   (setq-frame-title-format "This is a test.")
>   eval((setq-frame-title-format "This is a test."))
>   eval-last-sexp-1(t)
>   eval-last-sexp(t)
>   eval-print-last-sexp()
>   call-interactively(eval-print-last-sexp nil nil)
> 
> I'm a little behind the current Emacs, but not that much. However, I have 
> noticed other frame and window manipulation functions that are available on 
> UNIX, but not Windows.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: emacs-orgmode-bounces+jos'address@hidden
> > [mailto:emacs-orgmode-bounces+jos'address@hidden
> > On Behalf Of George Kettleborough
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 1:01 PM
> > To: Bernt Hansen
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [O] [PATCH] Option for clock and timer to be displayed in
> > frame-title
> > 
> > Hi Bernt,
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 06 2012, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> > > I tried this patch at work and it hangs my Emacs session in Windows
> > on
> > > startup.  It's totally unresponsive and I have to kill the process
> > with
> > > the task manager.
> > >
> > > I think there's an implementation problem here but I don't have any
> > > other useful information about what it might be.
> > 
> > Thanks for testing the patch.  That's quite alarming and I have no idea
> > why this would happen.  Can you change the frame title by doing (setq
> > frame-title-format ...) on Windows emacs normally?  I don't currently
> > have any Windows boxen to test this on unfortunately.
> > 
> > Also, what emacs version are you running?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > George.
> 
>