X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Original-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 7219A385BF92 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=orange.fr Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=luc DOT henninger AT orange DOT fr X-ME-Helo: [192.168.1.14] X-ME-Auth: bHVjLmhlbm5pbmdlckB3YW5hZG9vLmZy X-ME-Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 21:44:56 +0200 X-ME-IP: 82.123.47.89 Subject: Re: Re: Issue with mintty: title not updated when background process exists To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <7ea4c66b-5463-dccb-9a19-acd0ffb546c0 AT towo DOT net> <0f8c0f14-f978-c487-5702-0fc8a6727ce5 AT towo DOT net> From: Luc Henninger Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 21:44:53 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0f8c0f14-f978-c487-5702-0fc8a6727ce5@towo.net> Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 200401-0, 01/04/2020), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50, FREEMAIL_FROM, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_NONE, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: cygwin-bounces AT cygwin DOT com Sender: "Cygwin" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id 031Jqsd4024345 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 AT Mulan ~ >>>   $ emacs & >>>   [1] 371 >>>   Luc AT Mulan ~ >>>   $ cd bin >>>   Luc AT 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. -- Luc DOT Henninger AT orange DOT fr +33 6 32 96 32 27 -- L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple