Re: Long window title escape sequence breaks console output

[Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>]

On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 17:56:05 +0200
Tomi Belan wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 3:38 PM Tomi Belan <tomi.belan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I hope you enjoyed the bug report. Let me know if you have any questions.
> >
> > Tomi
> 
> Takashi Yano wrote:
> > Thanks for the report. What situation do you assume where
> > such a long title needs to be set?
> 
> I experienced the bug because my shell is configured to print the
> currently running command in the window title. When I ran a command
> longer than 256 characters, it looked like the command didn't run. It
> actually did run, but ssh.exe ate its output.
> 
> Example: https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Xterm-Title-5.html (but I'm not using zsh)
> 
> I know this isn't a common configuration, but I still hope you'll fix
> it. Since cygwin just uses mailing lists instead of a real persistent
> bug tracker, I'm worried about the bug being forgotten forever if it's
> not fixed soon.
> 
> Truncating the title to 256 WITH the final '\a' is a suboptimal but
> acceptable fix. A better idea might be: in non-legacy terminals, don't
> even switch from "normal" to "gettitle", just print everything as it
> arrives.
> 
> I'm not subscribed to the mailing list so I'm manually sending this as
> a reply to my first email. Sorry for the mess. Please CC me on future
> replies.

Fixed.
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2022q2/011939.html

Thanks.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>