Re: [wmx] Tab idea...

On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 03:22:51PM -0400, Jason Smith typed:
} Here's something I wrote to accomplish similar...
} I am always running 10 xterms at once, each on a different machine. I
} needed a way to change the titlebar without having to install a script or
} type a long line everytime. You add the program to your .wmx folder,
} select some text with the mouse, run it from the menu and choose a
} window. It will retitle the window to the current text selection..

Or better yet, just send the proper escape codes conditionally in your 
shell startup files.  For instance, using zshell, I put this in my .zshrc:

   chpwd() {
     [[ -t 1 ]] || return
     case $TERM in
   	 *xterm*|screen|rxvt|(dk|k|E|a)term) print -Pn "\e]2;%n@%m:%~\a"
   	 ;;
     esac
   }

which sets the xterm title bar (if this is an xterm) to login@machine: pwd.
(Note that the title bar is set only on a change of directory; I put a 
'cd .' at the end of my .zshrc.)  Zsh is especially nice because it can 
do truncation at the end of the directory; something like 

   print -Pn "\e]2;%n@%m:%(3~,../,)%2c\a"

(which is probably horribly inefficient) yields at most the last two 
elements of the current directory path, replacing the prefix with '../' 
in the xterm titlebar.  Of course, you'll probably still get truncation 
at the end... 

If you're using bash, something like this will suffice:

   PS1="\h|\W> "
   case $TERM in
   	xterm*)
   		PS1="\[\033]0;\u@\h: \w\007\]$PS1"
   		;;
   esac
   
   export PS1 

(or you can just set up PROMPT_COMMAND to point to an appropriate function; 
this is a little kludgy but I picked it up from someone a whiles ago.)

You can do similar things for tcsh.  Not that I remember what they were.  :)


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