Re: shelltitle, window titling

[Adam Lazur]

Dan Mahoney, System Admin (address@hidden) said:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> >I know someone who did something like this is zsh - I've been meaning
> >to ask him, but I know his screen displays "vim:/file/I/am/editing"
> >... maybe some version of ps? I guess it could be done if there's a
> >command called *right before* a command is executed... other than
> >that, besides aliasing each command, I don't know how...
> 
> Well, looking at ps, it's pretty easy to figure out what the last argument 
> is to a given command (nine times out of ten, that's going to be all that 
> matters -- ssh -1 -l danm hostname, nano -w filename...)  I just don't 
> know how to pass that to screen, or how screen even "gets" the command by 
> that sequence of escapes in the shell.
> 
> And is this "zsh" person on the list?

I'm not the zsh person he's talking about... but here's my zsh stuff.

In zsh you can define a preexec() function to be executed just prior to
command execution. See zshmisc(1) for info.

I use:

    titlestring='address@hidden:%~'
    preexec() {
        print -Pn "\E]0;$titlestring ${(QVz)2}\007"
    }

I also have a precmd() that'll set the title back to a normal prompt
after the command.

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Adam Lazur, Cluster Monkey