On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > At 17:02 2003-03-31, you wrote: > > > >Randall, > > > > > > > >Most likely there is no wrapper script. This is an option of "vim" > > > >itself. In vim, "help title". > > > > Igor > > > > > > Igor, > > > > > > That explains why I could not find documentation for the "title / > > > notitle" command when Thorsten mentioned it: I looked in the man and > > > info documentation. > > > [snip] > > > Randall Schulz > > > >Randall, > > > >I believe the title/notitle Thorsten meant was the option in the CYGWIN > >environment variable, and had nothing to do with vim. > > > >As for vim, when TERM=cygwin, the title of the Cygwin console is not > >changed, but I think this is related to the incomplete terminfo entry for > >cygwin. If you set TERM=xterm (in the Cygwin console), vim *will* set the > >title (I used the example in "help title"). > > Igor > > Igor, > > OK, but then why did you tell me this: > > >This is an option of "vim" itself. In vim, "help title". > [snip]
Randall, I was responding to your comment below: > >On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > > > It sounds to me like there's a script or other intervening command > > > definition handling your invocation of "vi." > [snip] > Here's a clue. Vim's ":set title" and ":set notitle" work if I invoke > Vim thusly: > > % TERM=xterm vi > > The title string is restored to it's initial value and reset to Vim's > titlestring setting when Vim is suspended and resumed (resp.), too. Isn't that what I said above? ;-) > So it seems the termcap and / or terminfo descriptions for TERM=cygwin > could have the necessary capabilities added (apparently identical to > those used by xterm) so Vim could control the window title under the > Cygwin console. > > Randall Schulz Yep. That's what I meant by "an incomplete terminfo entry for cygwin". Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/