[SOLVED] How to dynamically send status_format from mutt to xterm title?

iwtbf · 01-09-2015, 09:51 AM

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

Code:

set status_format="Mailbox is %f with %M messages [%v]  You have %n new messages."

in my .muttrc.

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

I use bash btw.

joe_2000 · 01-09-2015, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by iwtbf

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

Code:

set status_format="Mailbox is %f with %M messages [%v]  You have %n new messages."

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.

igadoter · 01-10-2015, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by joe_2000
Use your favorite search engine.

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!

iwtbf · 01-10-2015, 03:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joe_2000

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.

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

Quote:

Mutt 1.5.15 was released on April 6, 2007. This version has several new and long-standing feature patches applied in anticipation of a feature freeze toward 1.6. These include built-in SMTP, flowed mail support improvements, xterm title updating, charset improvements, GPG PKA support, etc. See the ChangeLog for full details.

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

joe_2000 · 01-10-2015, 05:28 AM

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Originally Posted by iwtbf

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...

joe_2000 · 01-10-2015, 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by igadoter

Quote:

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!

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...

iwtbf · 01-10-2015, 08:55 AM

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)