Re: [vile] Xterm titel issue

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> 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.

Probably the output isn't flushed completely.

I implemented a test-macro for some of the filtering stuff recently
using shell-command, and made the "~hidden" and "~quiet" modifiers
suppress the prompt for "press-return-to-continue" which also can
help in this area.

> > 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.

that probably would work...

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