Re: lynx-dev displaying current page title in xterm window title

[Vlad Harchev]

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Duncan Simpson wrote:

> 
> A little termcap reading shows that some older hadrware also has a set title 
> feature (with moderately different control sequences from xterm). lynx 
> couldtest hs to test for support and use ts fro instructions on how to do it.
> 
> >From the termcap man page
> 
>        hs   Has a status line
>        ds   Disable status line
>        ts   Move cursor to column %1 of status line
> 
> in xterm, and presumably others, sending <ts>Ritle<BEL> sets the staus line 
> (aka xterm title). You could cut ts off the beginning of ds and take the rest 
> as the end of the title string if you felt the need. Title setting code could 
> be as simple as
> 
> void set_title(const char *t)
> {
>     char *ts;
> 
>     if (tgetent("hs") && (td=tgetstr("ts", NULL))!=NULL)
                            ^^ ts
>     {
>       tputs(ts);
>       fputs(t, stdout);
>       fputc('\007', stdout);
>     }
> }

 Thank you very much for this nice hint.  Since there is no comment from Tom, 
I assume it will work fine (so I won't test for existance of $WINDOWID).

> -- 
> Duncan (-:
> "software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
> legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."

 Best regards,
  -Vlad


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