How to dynamically send status_format from mutt to xterm title?
 

When I use X I most often run mutt in xterm and I thought it might be nice to send mutt's status_format to the xterm title.

It is set as
in my .muttrc.

Is this possible and if so how to do it? Any help would really be appreciated.

I use bash btw.

Use your favorite search engine. One of the first results that came up for "bash set xterm title" was:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...xterm-titlebar

Which seems to work just fine.

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I think it is dicouraging for OP. LQ is very good place to ask such question as OP's and to look for help. Have a nice day!

Thank you. But I don't really get how I should send the information from mutt to bash, I thinks that's the harder(ish) problem for me.

I found this in http://www.mutt.org/news.html

But I can't find anything about it in the doc.

Ah ok, sorry, missed that part. I am not using mutt myself, but there seems to be some discussion in this direction here:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Automatica...t_screen_title

Maybe that helps?

The page you linked to is not very specific as to how far this new feature actually goes...

Thanks for the comment, always good to know how one comes across. I did not mean to be discouring. That said, I also think that LQ should help people helping themselves. And sometimes this involves encouring them to use search engines...

I solved the problem. I was particularly stupid by only reading the stable version documentation of mutt. I found the solution by ctrl+f "xterm".

For other people with the same "problem";
http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual...trings-filters





(I did search before starting this topic though)