Ticket #24416 (assigned enhancement)
Setting xterm titles while building
| Reported by: | raimue@… | Owned by: | raimue@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | MacPorts Future |
| Component: | base | Version: | |
| Keywords: | xterm title | Cc: | egall@… |
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Description
port could make use of the xterm title to provide some indicator what is currently doing. When using verbose or debug mode a lot of code will scroll by making it difficult to see what is actually being run at the moment.
Such titles can be set by writing to stdout with special escape sequences, such as:
echo -ne "\033]0;Foo Bar\007"
This will be implemented in the branch branches/xterm-titles.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by raimue@…
- Status changed from new to assigned
The branch is now kind of usable, please test. One known problem is that it does not reset the title after port exited.
comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by raimue@…
Unfortunately there is no reliable way to get the title in all terminals in order to restore it later. xterm seems to have special control characters for this, but those have not been implemented in Terminal.app. A solution would be to always reset to "" or "Terminal" (the default string in Terminal.app). A user-defined PROMPT_COMMAND could override this as well.