Re: command prompt window title

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote:

> Anoop,
>
> At 11:38 2003-03-31, you wrote:
>
> >I'm running cygwin's latest version 1.3.22-1.
> >When I run cygwin from my desktop, it brings
> >up a command prompt window with a title "Cygwin".
> >I modified cygwin.bat to make my default shell
> >tcsh.
> >
> >Anyway, after I run vi, the window title changes
> >to "vi <fname>" where <fname> is the file that
> >I'm editing.  When I quit vi, the title of the
> >window remains that way until I quit the window,
> >or I use vi again with another file, in which
> >case it changes to "vi <newfilename>".
>
> It sounds to me like there's a script or other intervening command
> definition handling your invocation of "vi."
>
> Please show us the output of "where vi" (assuming, as you state above,
> that you're using tcsh). If you're using BASH, then show us the output
> of "type -a vi".
>
> >When running things like gcc or make the window
> >title doesn't get affected at all...it continues
> >to show "Cygwin", unless I had previously run
> >vi in that window.
> >
> >Is there a way to fix this?  Is this a know
> >issue?
> >
> >I have the screen shots at:
> >http://www.ee.duke.edu/~ag/cygerrs.pdf
> >
> >Thanks,
> >-Anoop
> >--
> >Anoop Ghanwani
>
> Randall Schulz

Randall,

Most likely there is no wrapper script.  This is an option of "vim"
itself.  In vim, "help title".
	Igor
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