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Date:      Sat, 9 Oct 2004 06:25:08 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: csh is root's shell?
Message-ID:  <20041008202508.GO83620@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20041007171009.GA36712@regency.nsu.ru>
References:  <136a340a041007045538093bfd@mail.gmail.com> <200410071644.i97Giq5a058914@gw.catspoiler.org> <20041007171009.GA36712@regency.nsu.ru>

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On Fri, 2004-Oct-08 00:10:09 +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>I use pretty much the same code for setting xterm's titlebar.  However,
>there is one known problem with it: when you leave (^D) your shell,
>being ssh'ed to another machine, titlebar still has that remote host
>name.  If there was a way to retrieve current title string, sigh.
>Unless, of course, I'm missing something here.

I use zsh's 'chpwd' function to set my xterm titlebar and can "retrieve"
the current title bar by just doing 'cd .':
  chpwd() { echo -n "\033]2;$XTERM$USER@$HOST:$PWD\007" }

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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