Re: Are title-bars/tabs necessary?

On 15 February 2007 at 22:39, joerg van den hoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:45:18PM -0500, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> well, in case someone is not aware of it: for xterm and the like
> (and every 'sufficiently standard' terminal emulator (say, `rxvt')
> there is at least always the possibility to use some escape
> sequences to directly write into the title bar and use=20
> this facility within some aliases to get meaningful headings.
> so, one does not need specific shells to do this.
> 
> e.g., I use tcsh and have set the following in `.cshrc`
> (would be rather similar with bash and `.profile')
> 
> alias label   'echo -n "=1B]2;\!*=07"'
> alias cd      'cd \!*;label "$hostbasename":$PWD'
> 

tcsh has 'precmd' and 'postcmd' aliases so you can do that kind of thing.

alias precmd echo "pre"
alias postcmd echo "post"

> echo "hi"
post
hi
pre


-Jordan