[Request] Use frame title instead of modeline

[alienbogart]

That would be useful in a day and age were our eyes naturally go to the top when cycling between files/tabs/buffers etc.

Thanks!

[joostkremers]

Sorry for the late reply. I'm not sure the frame title is versatile enough for something like this, given that it's not meant to be updated regularly. The Elisp manual says that the frame title is only updated when the frame is redrawn, which wouldn't be appropriate for nswbuff.

What is possible, however, is to display the nswbuff window at the top of the current window. If that would be an acceptable alternative for you, let me know and I'll implement it.

[alienbogart]

What is possible, however, is to display the nswbuff window at the top of the current window. If that would be an acceptable alternative for you, let me know and I'll implement it.

That would be great, thanks!

[joostkremers]

Its' proving harder than I thought. There is some weird effect with the size of the window when it's at the top. I'll see what I can do about that and will let you know when I find a solution.

[joostkremers]

I pushed a commit that introduces the user option nswbuff-status-window-at-top. If you set this to t, the status window is displayed at the top of the current window.

In order to make the buffer standout, I changed the background color of the buffer to inherit from the face highlight (instead of default) and changed the default face for the current buffer to inherit from font-lock-keyword-face (instead of highlight). Of course these faces can be customized.

As an alternative, you could set nswbuff-mode-line-format, but for some reason that I haven't figured out yet, that doesn't really work for me. Could be something to do with my config.

One disadvantage of having the status window at the top is that the content of the current buffer is pushed down and when the status window disappears, it jumps up again. That may not be an issue if you have nswbuff-display-intermediate-buffers set to nil, but I have it set to t, which makes this jumping effect annoying. YYMV though.