Re: Automatic title-ing in screen

[Thomas Köhler]

Hi,

address@hidden wrote:
> Does anyone have a working sample of the hack described in the section
> "TITLES" of the man page. The idea is apparently to get screen to
> dynamically update the window's title as one switches to a different
> application.. I've tried lots of things the last couple of days and I
> haven't gotten anywhere. In particular I'm not sure I understand the
> part about a null title-escape-sequence output as part of the shell
> prompt. Not sure if it needs to be typed literally. The bash man page
> and the Bash Prompt Howto did't help much either. Either this doesn't
> work in the version of scren I'm running or more likely I'm missing
> something.. So may be a good example might help clarify..?

I have this in my .zshrc:

function preexec {
   if [ "$TERM" = "screen" ] ; then 
      local y
      y=(${(s: :)1})
      echo -n "k$y[1] ($(tty|sed -e 's,/dev/,,'))\\"
   fi
}

My precmd function contains something like this:
function precmd {
   PROMPT="[snip] kzsh ($(tty|sed -e 's,/dev/,,'))\\ [snip]"
}

Helps me a lot :)

Ciao,
Thomas

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