On 03/30/2010 02:13 PM, Roe, Kevin L. wrote: > I played with the default prompt to understand how it got the titlebar > working because mine didn’t. I figured out which part does it: > \[\e]0;$(pwd)\a\]\n > Where: > \[ Tell bash that you are starting a sequence of non-printing characters, that should not affect layout of the prompt within your terminal.
> \e]0; starts it Start of terminal control command sequence. \e is also \033. > And: > \a End of terminal control command sequence. \a is also \007. > \] Tell bash that you are done with non-printing characters. > \n ends it Actually, that's part of your literal prompt, and has nothing to do with the terminal title. > And everything in between: > $(pwd) is the title > > But I couldn't find references to those character sequences anywhere. Could > you explain what they mean? Then you didn't search in the right places. http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Xterm-Title.html This is not cygwin-specific. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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