Re: xterm/rxvt title expansion

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 7,  1:50pm, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
}
}       *xterm*|rxvt*) print -Pn "\e]2;%~\a"
} 
} roman@roman ~ > cd /usr                                          101:0
} sr

Obviously your terminal is failing to interpret "\e]2;" as the sequence
to begin writing to the title bar.  It sounds from the other symptoms as
if it might be interpreting it as writing to an emulated status line.
You aren't running your shell from inside the "screen" program in that
terminal by any chance?

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