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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:59:26 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: command prompt window title
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Anoop,

At 11:38 2003-03-31, you wrote:

>I'm running cygwin's latest version 1.3.22-1.
>When I run cygwin from my desktop, it brings
>up a command prompt window with a title "Cygwin".
>I modified cygwin.bat to make my default shell
>tcsh.
>
>Anyway, after I run vi, the window title changes
>to "vi <fname>" where <fname> is the file that
>I'm editing.  When I quit vi, the title of the
>window remains that way until I quit the window,
>or I use vi again with another file, in which
>case it changes to "vi <newfilename>".

It sounds to me like there's a script or other intervening command 
definition handling your invocation of "vi."

Please show us the output of "where vi" (assuming, as you state above, 
that you're using tcsh). If you're using BASH, then show us the output 
of "type -a vi".


>When running things like gcc or make the window
>title doesn't get affected at all...it continues
>to show "Cygwin", unless I had previously run
>vi in that window.
>
>Is there a way to fix this?  Is this a know
>issue?
>
>I have the screen shots at:
>http://www.ee.duke.edu/~ag/cygerrs.pdf
>
>Thanks,
>-Anoop
>--
>Anoop Ghanwani


Randall Schulz 


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