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Re: setting the title of a Cygnus window
- To: "J. Michael Hammond" <jmike at ONEXCHANGE dot com>
- Subject: Re: setting the title of a Cygnus window
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:23:59 -0400
- Cc: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <C704AF1C30F5D3119AC000D0B7261040045304@CONCORD>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 01:18:59PM -0400, J. Michael Hammond wrote:
>I was digging around in newsgroup archives for a way to set the title of a
>Cygnus window and tripped across a message you sent that indicates there's
>an escape sequence, either
>
><ESC>[2;new title^G
>
>or
>
><ESC>]2;new title^G
>
>
>and, unfortunately, there isn't enough context there for me to figure out
>how/where/when to apply this sequence. If I just try to type it in at the
>bash prompt on a cygwin, it doesn't work. Do I use it in an environment
>variable somewhere? In a bash script somehow? Help?
You echo it to the console. The second sequence is the correct one.
Please direct cygwin queries to the cygwin mailing list.
cgf
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