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From: chuck@Morgan.COM (Chuck Ocheret)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: (how to) place cwd in title bar
Message-ID: <3213@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 6 May 91 16:44:17 GMT
References: <1991May2.195905.5199@garfield.cs.mun.ca>
Organization: Morgan Stanley, & Co., Inc. / New York City, NY
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The problem with modifying cd to set your title bar to show pwd is that
you may return from a subshell (or rlogin, rsh, etc...) where you did
a cd and now your title bar is incorrect.  If you can modify your
prompt dynamically to include the escape sequence things work better.
Korn shell users must also fool the shell into believing the prompt
to be shorter than it is with the escape sequence enclosed otherwise it
wraps lines too soon.  The following works for me in my .envfile.


PS1="$(hostname) "'${PWD}'
if [[ $(whoami) = root ]]	# different prompt for root
then PEND='!# '
else PEND='!$ '
fi
if [[ xx = x${CONSOLE}x ]]	# console window should say CONSOLE
then    if [[ ${TERM} = xterm ]]
	then    PS1="^[]2;${PS1}^G^M${PEND}"
	else	PS1="${PS1} ${PEND}"
	fi
else    PS1="${PS1} ${PEND}"
fi

Where ^[ is escape, ^G is control-G and ^M is control-M.

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