beyond zsh v2.3.1

beyond zsh v2.3.1

[Julio Garcia]

Hello,

I am an unsophisticated user of zsh.  I have used for a couple of years.
I am currently running zsh v2.3.1.  I tried to upgrade to zsh-2.6-beta14
but I had a few problems and I wonder if someone out there can help me.

I am using HPUX 9.05:

o I got a compilation error.  I changed the file zle_tricky.c line 1684 from
    nameddirtab->filltable();
  to
    nameddirtab->filltable(0);

o I have been using a function that gets called by chpwd that looks
  like this:

                function print_banner {
                        print -n "\e]0;$1\a"
                }

  The purpose of it is to set the title of the xterm to the first parameter.
  With zsh 2.6 the title does not change and the string is simply output to
  stdout (tty maybe?).  I also tried to use a simple program that I have
  called xlabel which does the same thing as the print statement above.
  I had used xlabel with ksh in the past, but it realy wedged zsh when
  I use it in chpwd().  I had this problem with 2.5 as well.


Thanks for your time,

-- 
Julio Garcia - julio@fc.hp.com

Re: beyond zsh v2.3.1

[Allan Poindexter]

 Julio> o I have been using a function that gets called by chpwd that looks
 Julio> like this:

 Julio>                 function print_banner { print -n "\e]0;$1\a" }

 Julio>   The purpose of it is to set the title of the xterm to the first
 Julio> parameter.  With zsh 2.6 the title does not change and the string is
 Julio> simply output to stdout (tty maybe?).  I also tried to use a simple
 Julio> program that I have called xlabel which does the same thing as the
 Julio> print statement above.  I had used xlabel with ksh in the past, but it
 Julio> realy wedged zsh when I use it in chpwd().  I had this problem with
 Julio> 2.5 as well.

I use the escape feature in the prompt to do this:

PROMPT='%{^[]2;%M:%~\a%}%l %T %h%#'
RPROMPT=' %m:%~'

I define the following so I can turn it on and off at will:

noactiveprompt() { PROMPT='%l %T %h%#' }
activeprompt() { PROMPT='%{^[]2;%M:%~\a%}%l %T %h%#' }
alias nap=noactiveprompt
alias ap=activeprompt

Re: beyond zsh v2.3.1

[Swen Thuemmler]

On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Julio Garcia wrote:

> o I have been using a function that gets called by chpwd that looks
>   like this:
> 
>                 function print_banner {
>                         print -n "\e]0;$1\a"
>                 }

Shouldn't this be \e]2 instead? I have 
chpwd () {
        print -Pn "\e]2;${HOST}:%~ \a"
}
and this works.

Re: beyond zsh v2.3.1

[Duncan Sargeant]

> On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Julio Garcia wrote:
> 
> > o I have been using a function that gets called by chpwd that looks
> >   like this:
> > 
> >                 function print_banner {
> >                         print -n "\e]0;$1\a"
> >                 }
> 
> Shouldn't this be \e]2 instead? I have 
> chpwd () {
>         print -Pn "\e]2;${HOST}:%~ \a"
> }
> and this works.
> 

I have the following at the top of my .zshrc :

if [[ $TERM = "xterm" ]] && [[ "`stty size`" != "8 57" ]] then
    export PROMPT="%{^[]2;%m:%~%%^G%}%B[%?:%!]%b%# "
else
  export PROMPT='%B%m%b:%~%# '
  export RPROMPT='[%?:%!]'
fi

the bit of interest is the ^[]2; ... \a which puts the enclosed text in the
title bar of an xterm or screen screen.

don't know about HPUX tho ...

Duncan Sargeant, http://www.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/~dunc/
 "You can pick your friends and you can pick your
   nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose."

Re: beyond zsh v2.3.1

[Bart Schaefer]

On Aug 27, 10:21am, Swen Thuemmler wrote:
} Subject: Re: beyond zsh v2.3.1
}
} On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Julio Garcia wrote:
} 
} >                         print -n "\e]0;$1\a"
} 
} Shouldn't this be \e]2 instead? I have 
} 
}         print -Pn "\e]2;${HOST}:%~ \a"

ESC ] 0 changes the window name as well as the title, so the new title
will show up in xlswins and so on.  ESC ] 2 changes the title only.
Both should work, they do for me.

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