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From: rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
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Subject: Re: Title bar flicker fix for XTerm [setting title only on "cd"]
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Date: 3 Oct 90 20:02:31 GMT
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In <BRISTER.90Oct3111036@westworld.decwrl.dec.com> brister@decwrl.dec.com (James Brister) writes:
:
{a lot of people write...}
:
>> | |> |> Using tcsh, I set re-set the title of xterm before each shell
>> prompt,
>> | |> May I suggest a different approach to the same end.  Instead of 
>> | |> having the tcsh prompt string set the title bar on every command,
>> | |> alias the `cd ' command so as to set it only when actually changing
>> | |> the

>tcsh version 5.18 has a special alias called cwdcmd that is run
>automatically any time the $cwd variable is set. It is trivial to get the
>title to change using this facility and no messing around with the prompt
>string.

A related question....

However the tcsh feature, $sl and $el (for status lines), is not set 
by tcsh on my system.

Sun Sparc
SunOS 4.1
tcsh version	tcsh 5.19 (Cornell) 9/26/90 Patch level 1
Running xterm under
X11r4 (PL 18).

When tcsh starts it sets term, TERM, TERMCAP and a lot of others but
sl and el are left blank.  Am I doing something wrong?  (The value
of TERMCAP shows that the xterm definition contains strings for ts and
fs.)

Has anyone had success using this under tcsh?

Thanks,
Robert

BTW, Where in the xterm docs can I found out what the string to set the
     title should be?

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