Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mstan!chuck
From: chuck@Morgan.COM (Chuck Ocheret)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: changing titles
Message-ID: <730@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 90 15:38:06 GMT
References: <9002141515.AA12728@battle.ESD.ORNL.GOV> <48619@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
Reply-To: chuck@Morgan.COM (Chuck Ocheret)
Organization: Morgan Stanley and Co., NY, NY
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>  ...And David's solution is full of special cases.  Why don't you just put
>  the window title control string in you prompt and be done with it? ...

I recently posted how to set up the ksh prompt to update the window title.
However, I have discovered a problem with this that I hope someone can help
me with.  The size of the prompt string seen by ksh includes the entire
escape sequence.  Since I include ${CWD} in the title string, the string
can get very long.  How do I prevent ksh from thinking I only have a few
characters positions left on my command line?  Ksh starts shifting the
line over when it thinks you are out of room.

~chuck
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