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RE: spaces in title of mintty command
Thanks!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Blake [mailto:eblake@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 1:20 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com; Roe, Kevin L.
> Subject: Re: spaces in title of mintty command
>
> On 03/30/2010 02:13 PM, Roe, Kevin L. wrote:
> > I played with the default prompt to understand how it got the
> titlebar working because mine didnât. I figured out which part does
> it:
> > \[\e]0;$(pwd)\a\]\n
> > Where:
> > \[
> Tell bash that you are starting a sequence of non-printing characters,
> that should not affect layout of the prompt within your terminal.
>
> > \e]0; starts it
>
> Start of terminal control command sequence. \e is also \033.
>
> > And:
> > \a
>
> End of terminal control command sequence. \a is also \007.
>
> > \]
>
> Tell bash that you are done with non-printing characters.
>
> > \n ends it
>
> Actually, that's part of your literal prompt, and has nothing to do
> with the terminal title.
>
> > And everything in between:
> > $(pwd) is the title
> >
> > But I couldn't find references to those character sequences anywhere.
> Could you explain what they mean?
>
> Then you didn't search in the right places.
> http://*www.*faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Xterm-Title.html
> This is not cygwin-specific.
>
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