backup terminal title

[Matthew Seaman]

On 06/02/2010 13:55, Dominic Fandrey wrote:

> Nice, but I need something that works with base system
> components. Like an escape sequence that causes the terminal
> to reset its title.

Something like this for tcsh:

set prompt = '%{\033]0;%n@%m:%/\007%}%B%m%b:%c03:%# '

Sets the window title to 'user at hostname:/current/directory'.  Porting
this escape sequence to other shells left as an exercise for the student.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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