Re: On the topic of prompts

[unpingco@mpl.UCSD.EDU (Jose Unpingco)]

I've thought about sticking a highlighted status line on the last line
of a vt100 or xterm which would contain handy info like PWD, but I
could never figure out how. Could you be more specific about what you
mention below? I've never programmed a terminal before and I'm not
sure what you mean by games with the "termcap sequences".

thanks

Bart Schaefer said:
> 
> You can play all sorts of games with %{...%} and termcap sequences if
> your terminal can set scrolling regions and so forth.  If you're using
> an xterm, you can use something like this to change the title bar:
> 
> if [[ "$TERM" =3D xterm* || "$TERM" =3D vs100 || "$TERM" =3D vs100s ]]
> then
>     # Set top to introduce titlebar change
>     top=3D'=1B]0;'
>     # Set back to end titlebar change
>     back=3D'=07'
>     # Create precmd() to put stuff in the title bar
>     precmd() { print -nP "%{$top%m.%l:%2c - %t$back%}" }
> fi
> 

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Thank you for your time and consideration.  

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