Subject: bug#10051: 23.3; frame-identification

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:47:33 -0500

kurn wrote:

> The frame indentification has disappeared from the mode-line in the latest
> Emacs.  This is emacs -nw.
>
> Inspection shows the value of mode-line-frame-identification = ("  ") 

term/ns-win.el contains:

  ;; Don't show the frame name; that's redundant with Nextstep.
  (setq-default mode-line-frame-identification '("  "))

so this is intentional.
Whether it makes sense is another matter.
(This is part of http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4128 )

> In GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, NS apple-appkit-824.48)
>  of 2011-11-14 on d142-058-206-239.surrey.sfu.ca
> Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.824
> configured using `configure  '--with-ns''