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Changing status buffer in emacs 24 to show file path

I use emacs in terminal, hence title bar is not available, How do I see full file path or at least last 2 directories of file.

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Solution

  • I got the answer from https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/2338/how-can-i-display-the-parent-directory-of-the-current-file-in-the-modeline post

    Basically I added this 

    (setq-default mode-line-buffer-identification
              (let ((orig  (car mode-line-buffer-identification)))
                `(:eval (cons (concat ,orig (abbreviate-file-name default-directory))
                              (cdr mode-line-buffer-identification)))))