Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:09:19 +0300 From: egor duda X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53 RC/4) Reply-To: egor duda Organization: deo X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <18047030826.20011031100919@logos-m.ru> To: "Stephan Mueller" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Anyone using CYGWIN=title ? In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! Wednesday, 31 October, 2001 Stephan Mueller smueller@microsoft.com wrote: SM> Um, maybe I haven't played enough, but I don't believe that the title SM> kludge can be implemented using the escape sequences. For one thing, SM> the prompt string is just a prompt string, and hence gets printed before SM> you type anything, and not reprinted until the current command finishes. SM> So, during the execution of a command, the title cannot be made to SM> reflect the running command name, which is what it appears the SM> title-kludge-in-CYGWIN-variable does. i had a patch which adds xterm-like title escape sequences to cygwin console. i'll try to rework it to match current cvs tree and will post it asap. Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/