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Subject: Re: Re: Issue with mintty: title not updated when background process
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From: Luc Henninger <luc.henninger@orange.fr>
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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 21:44:53 +0200
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Le 01/04/2020 à 14:24, Thomas Wolff a écrit :
> Am 01.04.2020 um 14:20 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
>> Am 01.04.2020 um 13:07 schrieb Luc Henninger:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have defined the PS1 variable as follow
>>> PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\]\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[35m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ '
>>> so that the cur dir is set as title of the window.
>>>
>>> This generally work for both mintty or cmd.
>>> But after the sequence
>>>   Luc@Mulan ~
>>>   $ emacs &
>>>   [1] 371
>>>   Luc@Mulan ~
>>>   $ cd bin
>>>   Luc@Mulan ~/bin
>>>   $
>>> the title of the mintty widow remain to "~".
>>>
>>> The same sequence with cmd window change the title to "~/bin"
>>>
>>> The title is correctly updated only after I close emacs and push a 
>>> return to the main window.
>>>
>>> Any explanation? Thanks
>> Noted first, this is in any case not a mintty issue as mintty updates 
>> the title whenever it receives the respective escape sequence. The 
>> scenario sounds weird, however. Is the background process 
>> continuously sending title escape sequences? But 'emacs &' looks like 
>> you're starting a GUI instance of emacs, right? So why should it?
> Try to isolate the background instance from the terminal:
> emacs > /dev/null 2>&1 &
>
Yes, Thomas, I use emacs for MS Window. Thanks, this solves the issue. 
This is so an issue for emacs for windows.

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