On Tuesday, 05 February 2013 at 21:09, Erik Christiansen wrote: > The mutt installed today, from the mercurial repository, > Mutt 1.5.21+145 (2a1c5d3dd72e) (2012-12-30) > doesn't like this line in .muttrc: > > set xterm_set_titles=yes > > It complains: > > Error in /home/erik/.muttrc, line 96: xterm_set_titles: unknown variable > source: errors in /home/erik/.muttrc > > My old mutt, Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14)ยน, happily uses that to set the > xterm title to "Mutt with 3097 messages [90 NEW]". > > OK, in the newer mutt, these manual sections have vanished: > > 3.310. xterm_icon > 3.311. xterm_set_titles > 3.312. xterm_title > > so the feature seems to have been deliberately removed. > > But there's no mention of it in ChangeLog, and the last traffic on the > subject in my lurker's archive is from 2011, when it was still in use > on-list. > > The archive: marc.theaimsgroup.com does not respond ATM, but a quick > google of mutt.org, for xterm_set_titles, finds no talk of its removal. > > A search at http://bugs.mutt.org/trac/, for xterm_set_titles, matches > only two fleas, and only incidentally. > > I wonder what happened to it? (But I'll survive without it. :)
That's a third-party patch, as others have pointed out. But using the | feature of format strings you can get similar functionality. See contrib/mutt_xtitle in the mutt repo: http://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/file/tip/contrib/mutt_xtitle
