From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 4 16:15:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7EC515222 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 16:14:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.4] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11jUGs-000EFX-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 04 Nov 1999 21:18:14 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11jUGs-0001ck-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 04 Nov 1999 21:18:14 +0000 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:17:29 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xterm and/or X escape sequences Message-ID: <19991104211814.B6223@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens wrote: > I tend to have lots of xterms running (and before anyone replies that > I'm dis-organized; check the header to this mail, I already know :) > ) and have an alias for cd(1) that writes the current dir to the > title bar and use "set windowname" in vi(1). What I'm trying to do is > patch mutt(1) to save the window title and restore it after editing a > message instead of just restoring it as "xterm-color". Look at the vim source code. I don't know how it does it, but it seems to manage it somehow. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message