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Lee D. Rothstein wrote:

>  > "\e[1;5A": history-search-backward
>  > "\e[1;5B": history-search-forward
> 
> Perhaps I don't understand this 'bash' feature, but it doesn't
> seem to work for me.

Start typing a command, press Ctrl-Up, and it finds the previous line in 
the history that started like that.

> I do lots of bash scripting including Windows/DOS commands, and I
> can think of only one character cell app that ever gave me any
> trouble from rxvt or xterm (whatever that app is -- I think a
> Resource Kit app), I found a work-around and never needed it
> again.

'net' is a troublesome command that's been mentioned, although it seems 
to be ok for basic stuff. But I guess there might be still be a few DOS 
fullscreen apps around. Turbo Pascal perhaps? But yeah, I'd sooner 
implement tabs than worry about DOS apps. ;)

> Isn't ANSI implementation required of virtual terminals? I know
> that later DEC VTs, and HP terminals (bless their expensive
> little scroll-back buffer hearts) had an "ANSI" mode.

To be honest, I didn't really know what I was talking about there. 
Wouldn't surprise me though if MS had done their usual embrace&extend 
trick on the ANSI stuff.

>  > I didn't know xterm actually had a UI for this. Do people find
>  > this useful?
> 
> I've used it on occasion when I needed to scroll back through two
> debugging runs of a text-mode (character cell) app (or debugging
> statements).

So your debug print macro or whatever would be switching screens?

> What would be better for this and other problems, however, is a
> feature that I would love: The ability to interactively, on the
> fly change, the Title Bar/Task Bar Title to be clear on what each
> Window is doing.

Can you explain the "interactive" bit a bit more. Do you mean clicking 
on the window title and start typing away at it?

Andy

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