CMD.EXE prompt batch file windows - title length

[ChrisGreaves]

Judging from a quick search, Win11 changed many aspects of the TITLE area, top-line of a CMD window. And yes, I know that I ought to advance from BATch files, but my investment is heavy and they have been getting the job done for hundreds (!) of years.

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:: In this version we set the day of week and then test to set device strings Y and Z
::		for /f %%a in ('wmic path win32_localtime get dayofweek /format:list ^| findstr "="') do (set %%a)
		if not %dayofweek%==0 goto 25Purging

		if exist Z:\nul goto 20MountedZ
		Title %0 -                     Mounting drive Z
%DEBUG%
		"C:\Program Files\VeraCrypt\VeraCrypt.exe" /q /l Z  /v %Z%
		%DEBUG%
echo Check drive Z mount 

In this snippet from a DOS backup batch file, I use the TITLE command to lodge text in the window. My Title is a fixed-format - the name of the batch file, and then the action being taken. Note the white-space in the title; I was raised on The Little Book of Basic StyleTo my surprise in Win11 the TITLE command seemed to produce no output at all. Well, hardly any output, as a Title:

Title01.png

So I wrote a test script

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title here is a title
pause
title %0 here is a title
pause

which produced the output as

Title03.png

Armed by new-found knowledge in this topic "getting rid of Win11 Notepad - reverting back to the no-tab version" which prompted me to click on the cog wheel icon in the top right, to get into Settings where I found

Title02.png

.
I changed the Tab Width Mode from "Equal" to "Title length", saved changes, and now see the complete Title. Hooray!

My current feeling is that there are/were many more changes to Notepad; this reinforces my belief that some change in the ap name, a version number at least, might have been helpful.
Note that I am now using the *new* **improved** ***all-singing-all-dancing*** version of Notepad and morosely wait now for the next feature to leap out and bite me in the bum.
Cheers, Chris