Re: idea for new feature (was: Re: sticky-note and zle bindings)

["Matt Wozniski" <mjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 19, 2008 7:01 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> It's possible to configure xterm to not respond to these sequences,
> and the window manager can suppress others.
>
> } Do you know from which version on it should be implemented?
>
> No, but another poster said it's been several years.  I have what seems
> to be v.192 (based on RPM version string) and it responds to all of
> them except "get_title".

Getting the title via control sequence is often compiled out for
security reasons.  See http://securityvulns.com/Edocument128.html ,
the "window title reporting" section.  The long and short of it is so
that a malicious text file, when cat'ed (or something similar), can't
set the title to a command, request the title (this putting the title
on the command line in the absense of a 'read'), and trick the user
into pressing enter.

~Matt