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From: ambar@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Jean Marie Diaz)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: hostname in mode line?
Message-ID: <2474@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 5-Jul-86 21:10:15 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul  5 21:10:15 1986
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In article <2408@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> douglis@kim.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>
>Does anyone have a way to get the hostname in each mode line?  When I
>run emacs under X, I don't have a header on the window to tell me
>which host I'm running on, and the only way I have to find out with
>which machine an emacs is associated is to go to its shell subwindow.

First, include a line in your .login to the effect that 
'host = hostname'.  Then try something like this:


(setq default-mode-line-format		;to distinguish from CCA lusemacs
      (concat "%*%*%*GNU " (getenv "host") " %b  %M %[(%m)%] %3p %-"))

(setq mode-line-format default-mode-line-format)

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					AMBAR
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