Is there a way to show Emacs command line arguments in status or title bar? Basically I start emacs like “emacs someproject/file.txt”, and I want it to show “someproject/file.txt” somewhere in the window.
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Is there a way to show Emacs command line arguments in status or title bar? Basically I start emacs like “emacs someproject/file.txt”, and I want it to show “someproject/file.txt” somewhere in the window.
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command-line-argsvariable may be sufficient, but non-file arguments which are processed by Emacs are also deleted from that variable, so it won’t include those.Try this: