Thanks!
> -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Blake [mailto:ebl...@redhat.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 1:20 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com; Roe, Kevin L. > Subject: Re: spaces in title of mintty command > > 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
