Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!ucsd!ames!dftsrv!sage0!chris From: chris@sage0.gsfc.nasa.gov (Chris P. Ross) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: ?: tcsh escape for retitling cmdtool Message-ID: Date: 3 Aug 90 18:28:02 GMT References: <615@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <616@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Lines: 29 In <616@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> holtz@strawdog.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Holtz) writes: >In article <615@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> holtz@strawdog.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Holtz) writes: >> >>The following alias (for retitling a cmdtool or shelltool) works in csh >>but hangs tcsh when the alias is invoked: >> >alias label 'echo -n "^[]l\!*^[\"' The problem is propbably just that tcsh is swolowing the Esc keys becuase they are bind'd to something that won't allow them through (like 'prefix-meta') so maybe if you did: bind self-insert-command Esc alias label 'echo -n "^[]l\!*^[\"' bind prefix-meta Esc (or, in the last line, replace "prefix-meta" with what your Esc key is bound to) This might work, just a guess. Let me know how it goes... - Chris -- -=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=- Chris P. Ross (301)/286-7242 | InterNet: chris@sage0.gsfc.nasa.gov EGRET Programmer, NASA / GSFC | chris@olgao.umd.edu -=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-