Re: dynamic version of C-aA

[Peder Stray]

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Fabiano Sidler wrote:

> Hi folks!
>
> In my .screenrc I have a binding to a script that lets me type in the 
> name of a manual page and then execs man with my input as the parameter. 
> This works great, but now, because I often open multiple manpages that 
> way in parallel, I'd like to name my manual windows. I've got this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo -n 'manual page: '
> read page
> title=`whatis $page | cut -d\  -f1,2 --output-delimiter=''`
> #now, how to set the title here?
> man $page
>
> I've tried many strings with escape sequences, but all of them simply 
> got printed out to the terminal instead of setting the screen subwindow 
> title... Can someone here tell me the proper sequence? Thanks in 
> advance! ;)

I use the normal XTerm-escape for setting the title:

echo -e '\e]0;$title\a"


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