X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BB25D04.6090703@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:20:20 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100301 Fedora/3.0.3-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, "Roe, Kevin L." Subject: Re: spaces in title of mintty command References: <416096c61003301154m5fe3ad27t52114493d7b85240@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig9CC8B585CFADCD5663864848" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 --------------enig9CC8B585CFADCD5663864848 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/30/2010 02:13 PM, Roe, Kevin L. wrote: > I played with the default prompt to understand how it got the titlebar wo= rking because mine didn=E2=80=99t. I figured out which part does it: > \[\e]0;$(pwd)\a\]\n=20 > 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=20 >=20 > But I couldn't find references to those character sequences anywhere. Co= uld 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. --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enig9CC8B585CFADCD5663864848 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuyXQcACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDuHgCdFG560QVm0F5fNPqlhrHoF6mm 3jUAn0mpcupDXA/EIvxsR2NXTU4MIT4l =jXJ9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig9CC8B585CFADCD5663864848--