That is cool.



I've had (in the VT220/320) some pretty wild prompts.



There was a thunderbolt, and for the holidays, someone

crafted Santa, a sleigh, and reindeer. People must have

had more time back then, or else no one who was in

charge had any idea what they were doing. Or both.



Carl Friedberg

(212) 798-0718

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The Elias Book of Baseball Records

2017 Edition



-----Original Message-----

From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of jdow

Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 7:22 PM

To: [log in to unmask]

Subject: Re: Tip: when your terminal gets all screwed up



On 2017-11-10 15:14, ToddAndMargo wrote:

> Dear List,

> 

> Ever cat a binary file by accident and your

> terminal gets all screwed up.

> 

> I had a developer on the Perl 6 chat line give me

> a tip on how to unscrew your terminal and set it

> back to normal.  (He way helping me do a binary

> read from the keyboard.)

> 

> stty sane^j

> 

> Note: it is <ctr><J>, not "enter".

> 

> -T



Make "\033]0;" the first bit of your prompt. Never worry about it again.



ESC-0 sets the terminal to have no attribute bits set. So it clears funny 

display. I've had that as a standard part of my prompts for decades, even back 

in the CP/M days.

{^_^}   Joanne