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+#+TITLE: An Improved Emacs Frame Title Format
+#+DATE: 2021-05-28T16:26:12-04:00
+#+DRAFT: true
+#+DESCRIPTION:
+#+TAGS[]: emacs
+#+KEYWORDS[]: emacs
+#+SLUG:
+#+SUMMARY:
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+#+ATTR_HTML: :title Old vs. New Frame Title
+#+ATTR_HTML: :alt Old vs. New Frame Title
+[[file:cover.png]]
+
+I've often found that the default Emacs frame title is a little
+bizarre. =emacs@host= Seems a little useless at describing what's
+going on in the actual window in my opinion, and I believe the space
+could be put to much better use. Perhaps it's designed for
+environments where X11 forwarding is common practice, or where GNU
+Emacs shares a system with XEmacs.
+
+Taking inspiration from both Emacs and Firefox, I came up with a frame
+title format that I think is much more useful.
+
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp
+(setq frame-title-format '("%b@" (:eval (or (file-remote-p default-directory 'host) system-name)) " — Emacs"))
+#+end_src
+
+Instead of =emacs@hostname=, I use =buffer-name@buffer-host — Emacs=.
+Here =buffer-name= is the name of the currently focused buffer, and
+=buffer-host= is the host on which the buffer's file resides. This
+means that if you're connected over TRAMP to another host, the remote
+host's name will be displayed in the frame title. I then added =—
+Emacs= at the end, so that it's still obvious which program owns the
+window.
+
+It's possible to customize the title a lot more, but this seems to be
+a good middle ground for me. =frame-title-format= uses the same
+formatting template as =mode-line-format=, so you can check that
+variable with =describe-variable= too see all the formatting options
+available.