Re: [vile] Xterm titel issue

[Paul van Tilburg]

Hey,

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 06:46:42PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
>> Since a few months ago, I let vile update my Xterm title.  I use the
>> 'xterm-title' setting.  Now, I have some macros that launches a
>> postscript or PDF viewer (using capture-command), however sometimes
>> after a call to the macro the title will be 'xterm' and remain until I
>> restart vile.
>> Am I doing something wrong or is this just a plain 'ol bug?
>
> What does the macro look like?  In xterm I've not seen any particular
> issue with the xterm-title setting.

An example:

; Clean up all files generated from (La)TeX source (log/aux/dvi/ps/pdf).
18 store-macro
  write-message &cat "Cleaning up everything of: " $cfilname
  1 shell-command &cat "make -f $HOME/.vile-rules clean_all SRC=" $cfilname
~endm
bind-key execute-macro-18 ^A-C

I have a set of macros like this and it seems shell-command ruins it. 
Possible because my shell (zsh) also sets titles, although it should
have address@hidden:<cwd> as title, not a program it runs.
The macros using capture-command work fine.

> But other things (than vile and xterm) can interfere with it - for  
> instance a quick check shows me that screen is filtering out the  
> title-string controls (a problem that comes and goes according to the  
> screen bug-reports ;-).

I am normalling running Vile from ZSH on GNOME Terminal.

Paul

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