From fdaca0947ccb5a3023b9af20b69a7eb00e0437f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Medico Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 05:15:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] If the title string is too big then xtermTitle() can misbehave by causing the terminal to echo some of the characters and generate a "beep" sound. (trunk r8289) svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=8363 --- pym/output.py | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/pym/output.py b/pym/output.py index 08e4d8401..f59609ee7 100644 --- a/pym/output.py +++ b/pym/output.py @@ -231,6 +231,11 @@ def nc_len(mystr): def xtermTitle(mystr, raw=False): if dotitles and "TERM" in os.environ and sys.stderr.isatty(): + # If the title string is too big then the terminal can + # misbehave. Therefore, truncate it if it's too big. + max_len = 253 + if len(mystr) > max_len: + mystr = mystr[:max_len] myt=os.environ["TERM"] legal_terms = ["xterm","Eterm","aterm","rxvt","screen","kterm","rxvt-unicode","gnome"] for term in legal_terms: -- 2.26.2