Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:18:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Sanjay Goel cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: changing bash window title In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Sanjay Goel wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Sanjay Goel wrote: > > > >> Hi Igor, > >> I added this line in my .bashrc > >> function settitle() { echo -n "^[]2;$@^G^[]1;$@^G"; } > >> now when I write settitle sanjay on my $ , it does not change my > >> title .. this is what happens > >> > >> [~]$ settitle sanjay > >> ^[]2;sanjay^G^[]1;sanjay^G[~]$ > >> [~]$ > >> > >> what is it that I am missing ? > >> Sanjay > > > > The control characters. ^[ is *one* character, Ctrl-[ (aka ESC). ^G > > is also *one* character, Ctrl-G (aka BEL). Fix that, and the > > incantation should work. > > Igor > > How do I add these control characters in my .bashrc .. I opened the file in > vim but pressing Ctrl-[ does not work > Sanjay Yeah, next time I'll go with my first impulse and put that in right away. Try Ctrl-V Ctrl-[ (in the vim insert mode). Same for Ctrl-G. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/