On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:21 PM, jdow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 2017-11-10 15:14, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>
>> 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".
>
> 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.

It's "\033[0m" that resets attributes not "\033]0;".

"\033]0;" sets the xterm window title and the xterm icon name to the
text that follows (up until "\007").