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pls see:

http://materm.sourceforge.net/docs/settitle.c

On 1/23/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
> Ugh, top-posting...  Reformatted.
>
> Two more notes: first, the Cygwin lists don't accept HTML email, as you no
> doubt found out from the rejection notice, and second, please make sure
> your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set it for a reason.
>
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote:
>
> > On 1/23/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT XX DOT XXX DOT XXX> wrote:
>
> Again, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.
>
> > > Ugh, top-posting...  Reformatted.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 1/23/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT XX DOT XXX DOT XXX> wrote:
> > >
> > > <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > > > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Here is what i am seeing:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > v468929 AT TRD-CAX40JXD ~> >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > the duplicate ">" is the issue.  Here is my PS1:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > \[\033]61;\u@\H\007\u@\H \W>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > as you can see, only a single ">"
> > > > > > [snip]
> > > > >
> > > > > [snip]
> > > > > Also, ESC] doesn't look like a valid ANSI escape sequence.  What
> > > > > exactly are you trying to accomplish with your prompt?
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > > If that was all you wanted, you could have set PS1 to '\u@\H \W>'.  Your
> > > prompt tries to do more than that.  I'm still unsure of what the initial
> > > sequence of non-printing characters in your prompt is for.
> >
> > Those characters work with mrxvt to cause the tab name to have the
> > appropriate user AT host value.
>
> Ah.  Ok, that explains it.  Good to know.  Thanks.
>         Igor
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