Re: 'Strange' changes in status line

[Glenn Morris]

Angelo Graziosi wrote:

> In the status line, now I see 'Emacs' near the buffer name
>
> --:----Emacs foo.f90 59% ....
>
> Just a curiosity, Why this change and which usefulness?

I believe it's an unintended consequence of this:

2008-08-25  Eli Zaretskii  <address@hidden>

    * bindings.el (mode-line-frame-control): New function, caters to
    `pc' ``window system''.
    (mode-line-frame-identification): Use it instead of
    accessing window-system directly.


In X:

emacs -Q

C-h v mode-line-frame-identification
Its value is ("-%F  ")

M-: (mode-line-frame-control)
-> " "

ie, the variable is being set at the wrong time.