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bug#36839: 26.1: unique frame names
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#36839: 26.1: unique frame names |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:38:21 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > So you want Emacs to uniquify the frame's name using the 'name'
>> > parameter as a template?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> OK, but in that case I think it should be a different parameter, since
> 'name' is supposed to be the literal name of the frame.
>
> In general, setting frame names was supposed to be done manually for
> each frame, giving them meaningful names. A template assumes some
> kind of automated naming, which was not the goal of this feature's
> design (if frame names don't have to be meaningful, we already have
> the Fnn names that are assigned automatically).
(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)
Reading this thread, I think the conclusion here is that the utility of
adding a new "template" parameter would be of limited value, so we don't
really want to do that. And I'm therefore closing this bug report.
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