From: Kenn Humborg (kennbluetree.ie)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 11:43:28 CST

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> After further investigation, I'd like to point out the following:
>
> Eterm has *never* allowed any control characters in its title/icon
> name sequences. The following bit of code has existed at least since
> Eterm was first committed to CVS:
>
> else if (ch < ' ')
> return; /* control character - exit */
>
> in term.c::process_xterm_seq(), line 1270 or so.
>
> So there was never any way to get escape sequences in the title to
> begin with, meaning that the command cannot be hidden using any
> character attributes or background/foreground color matching.

What about the CSI character, code 155 (128+27), which DEC terminals
(from at least vt220) interpret as a "shorthand" for "ESC ["?

   http://vt100.net/docs/vt220-rm/chapter2.html#S2.5.2

Later,
Kenn

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