Re: shelltitle, window titling

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Phil!Gregory wrote:

> * Dan Mahoney, System Admin <address@hidden> [2005-08-25 13:25 -0400]:
> > Is there any way to have command options included for certain commands?
> >
> > i.e. to have some sort of script or regex look allow me to have
> > ssh:address@hidden, or irc:irc.freenode.net
>
> screen does not support this; its automatic titling stuff is relatively
> simple.  Since you're running tcsh, you could use the postcmd alias to
> achieve what you want.  (postcmd is tcsh's analog to zsh's preexec.)
>
> I see form my notes that the tcsh invocation to get the name of the
> current command into the shelltitle is
>
>  alias postcmd 'echo -ne "^[k\!#:0^[\\"'
>
> so this should do roughly what you want:
>
>  alias postcmd 'echo -ne "^[k\!#:0 \!#:$^[\\"'

Okay, perchance I didn't get this through, my last email was written on 
about three active brain cells.

I can't for the life of me get the precmd/postcmd variables to understand 
the bracketed escape sequence, nor \033 or anything like that.  The PROMPT 
command seems to have its own special sequence of %{ %} that you can wrap 
an escape sequence in.  The echo builtin to tcsh SUPPOSEDLY understands 
escape sequences, but I don't believe it.  I've tried instead calling 
/bin/echo, but clearly the -e is something unique to the gnuish stuff.

I don't use an editor that supports dumping nonprintable characters into 
the .tcshrc (I use nano).

with this in mind, I've switched over to the precmd and postcmd using 
"printf" to generate the necessary ascii escape sequences, instead.

        alias precmd 'printf "\033%s%s\033\\" "k" "tcsh"'
        alias postcmd 'printf "\033%s%s %s\033\\" "k" "\!#:0" "\!#:$"'

And this works decently.

-Dan

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