set window title for mintty

Question

With vim running on cygwin, I would like to automatically set the window title on the active buffer name.

I wrote this:

function! SetMinttyTitle()
    silent !clear
    execute "!" . "echo -ne '\\e]0;". @% . "\\a' 2>&1 > /dev/null"
endfunction

au BufNewFile,BufEnter,BufRead * call SetMinttyTitle()

Unfortunately It doesn't work as expected. I didn't find the way to get rid of this message

"Press ENTER or type command to continue"

How can I run my command on the background?

Ingo Karkat · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-22T10:46:50.350

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The usual answer is to use system() instead; it doesn't echo the output, but instead returns it. But that won't work in your case, as you need the output to be printed to your terminal. Temporarily resetting 'shellredir' may work:

set shellredir=
call system("clear; echo -ne '\\e]0;". @% . "\\a' 2>&1 > /dev/null")
set shellredir=>

But Vim actually has that functionality built-in, see :help 'titlestring'

edited Sep 22 '14 at 10:46

answered Sep 22 '14 at 10:36

Ingo Karkat

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I tried to use system in my function but it doesn't work – nowox Sep 22 '14 at 10:39
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Ah right, because you need the output to go to the terminal. Doesn't `'titlestring'` work for you, as per my edit? – Ingo Karkat Sep 22 '14 at 10:47
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I didn't know `:set title`. You found the solution I was looking for. Thanks – nowox Sep 22 '14 at 15:13

set window title for mintty

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