Apologies for violating sane quoting convention, but I'm working off a crapberry.
Wrt to window titles: change your PS1 prompt to no longer reassign the title with the pwd (assuming you still have the default definition from /etc/profile (or similar)) and use the same escape sequience it uses (a standard vt100 documented one) to explicity assign your own title. The same can be done within a native dos box, but the explicit assignment has to be through a binary that calls SetConsoleTitle() because the native terminal does not support the escape code (as I recall). ----- Original Message ----- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com <cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com <cygwin@cygwin.com> Sent: Thu Jan 15 23:21:31 2009 Subject: Re: First Pass at mintty documentation; etc. Andy Koppe wrote: > 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'll work on that habit. Thanks. >> 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. ;) > rudimentary 'net' works. >> > 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? > No. Me at the terminal switches screens, using the options menu, before the second run. >> 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? > Exactly what I had in mine. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
