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  caption always "%?%F%{w}%:%{K}%? %{R}%H%{-} %{B}>>%{-} %L=%{k}%-Lw%45>%{G}%n%f %t%{-}%+Lw%=%{-}%-22<%{B}<<%{-} %{R}%Y-%m-%d %0c:%s%{-}"

Nope, it's still terrible. :)

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Yeah. They took ideas from things like PS1 setting with Bourne shell, and kept going. Keeping the variables to single letters was intended to have the format string be approximately the same length as it might actually be displayed. However, that doesn't work well in practice. It would be better to go with keywords (or maybe even key-phrases) instead.

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