Re: preexec like behavior ? (feature request)

[Tobias]

Hi Chet

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:50:03 -0400
"Chet Ramey" <chet@cwru.edu> wrote:

> Tobias wrote:
> > Often a user will start a long-lived foreground job such as top, an editor, 
> > an email client, etc, and wishes the name of the job to be shown in the 
> > title. This is a more thorny problem and is only achieved easily in zsh.
> 
> I don't see a compelling reason to add this functionality.  There are
> several workarounds one can use when one is found in this situation
> (e.g., using redirection to echo the right characters to the appropriate
> window), and, as you noted, an unofficial patch available for folks
> who want to integrate it into their copies of bash.

What do you mean with "using redirection to echo the right characters to the 
appropriate
window". Can you point me to the right direction ? I have not found any way to 
do that
for long-lived prozesses (eg. vim).
Defining "aliases"(functions) for a dozen(!) of programs is not a solution for 
me.


Thanks in advance

Greets
Tobias