Display path of file in status bar

Question

GNU Emacs 23.1.1

I am wondering is there a way to display the path of the file in the status bar, instead of just the filename.

I have to open many files in many

Answer 1

If you are ok with seeing this as the frame title instead of in the status bar, which I personally prefer because it is less cluttered and is useful also when switching windows with Alt+TAB, etc., then you can add something like the following to your .emacs file without installing any extensions:

;; Disable loading of “default.el” at startup,
;; in Fedora all it does is fix window title which I rather configure differently
(setq inhibit-default-init t)

;; SHOW FILE PATH IN FRAME TITLE
(setq-default frame-title-format "%b (%f)")

%b will show the buffer name as usual, and %f the full file path. You can of course change the order, add text in between, remove %b, etc.