Tanguy Ortolo, 2011-07-21 13:04 UTC+0200:
> Oh, right, I missed it, sorry. Okay, that was my suggestion but are now
> this topic better than I do, so I shall let you decide what to do with
> this report now.

Sorry, one more reflexion about that. There may exist other solutions,
but if the decision is between adding or not hs, tsl and fsl to the
xterm definition, I think this is the question that should be
considered: will the situation be better or worse than it is currently?

For what I see, the current situation is:
* many shell configurations and programs use hardcoded escape sequences
  for xterm only, and do not use other terminal's window title features
  because they do not know about it;
* several other graphical terminal emulators expose tsl and fsl for
  window title, simply ignoring the column argument;
* as far as I know, there exist no program that use the status line
  column selection, but I may be wrong: did you get many bug reports
  about rxvt-unicode's tsl that does not honor the position argument?

Introducing tsl and fsl would:
* allow to write portable shell configurations and programs;
* break all the programs that rely on the status line column
  selection.

If the number of programs that rely on the status line column selection
is actually null, then I think this would only be a benefit.

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