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Re: changing bash window title
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Sanjay Goel <sanjaygoel at hotpop dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:18:41 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: changing bash window title
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Sanjay Goel wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Sanjay Goel wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Igor,
> >> I added this line in my .bashrc
> >> function settitle() { echo -n "^[]2;$@^G^[]1;$@^G"; }
> >> now when I write settitle sanjay on my $ , it does not change my
> >> title .. this is what happens
> >>
> >> [~]$ settitle sanjay
> >> ^[]2;sanjay^G^[]1;sanjay^G[~]$
> >> [~]$
> >>
> >> what is it that I am missing ?
> >> Sanjay
> >
> > The control characters. ^[ is *one* character, Ctrl-[ (aka ESC). ^G
> > is also *one* character, Ctrl-G (aka BEL). Fix that, and the
> > incantation should work.
> > Igor
>
> How do I add these control characters in my .bashrc .. I opened the file in
> vim but pressing Ctrl-[ does not work
> Sanjay
Yeah, next time I'll go with my first impulse and put that in right away.
Try Ctrl-V Ctrl-[ (in the vim insert mode). Same for Ctrl-G.
Igor
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