>>>>> "Jonas" == Jonas Moberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jonas> I've (after many years of use..) been looking up what my
Jonas> shell actually can do for me to make my life easier. I've
Jonas> been going thru the features of tcsh (first shell I ever
Jonas> used, but I'm determined to go thru bash and zsh or ksh
Jonas> (when time permits that is..)).
<plug subject=zsh> Do yourself a favor and try zsh first... even
before tcsh (in other words: get rid of that), but certainly before
bash. Go with the package in potato, or better yet, with 3.1.9* in
woody. I'd bet you will *not* regret it... </plug>
Jonas> This is something I've been looking for a long time, being
Jonas> able to print the current process in the xterm-title (be it
Jonas> "top" or "joe" or whatever). Not that this example works of
Jonas> course ;).. But why? Is it depending on the window-manager?
If you tell us what WM you use... but think about it, the title bar is
decoration, which is done by the WM (if you start without a valid WM,
you get borderless windows... not window title). So it might well be.
Though I don't know of any WM that doesn't... at least both Window
Maker and Sawfish are confirmed to be able to. (I ran WMaker and do
full GNOME now (Helix got me ;-))
Jonas> I've read the xterm-title mini-howto and it simply says
Jonas> it's "hard" to do it in any other shell than zsh (the
Jonas> author welcomes any suggestions).
Another reason for choosing zsh ;-)
Jonas> Just for your info, I can't seem to get these other
Jonas> xterm-titles using cwdcmd to work either. I'm not so good
Jonas> that I understand what ^[]2; and ^G does.
Stupid question: you know that those ^ thingies are control codes,
right? Now I don't know whether tcsh understand ^[ (two ascii chars)
to be ESC automagically or not... make sure those are one char (in
Emacs or jed, type ctrl-q and then the char (esc or ctrl-g). vi? I
don't even have one one this system ;-)
I have this construct in my zsh PROMPT: ]2;%M:%~
Note how ^[ and ^G are not two characters each, but one. Works
perfectly... even when closing an ssh connection, the host got
restored.
[...]
Jonas> Of course, if you got any solutions or suggestions for bash
Jonas> or other shells feel free to share them.. ;)
I'm glad I did. ;-) HTHS.
Jonas> While I'm at it, I'll get another tcsh issue of my
Jonas> chest. Is there any possibility to get TAB to do the the
Jonas> tcsh list-glob function (lists global patterns) aswell as
Jonas> the commands-, dir-, var-, env-completion that it does by
Jonas> default?
Don't know what this means... I only know <plug subject=zsh>zsh's
completion system <cool>r0x</cool></plug>. ;-))
Jonas> Thanks!
What for? ;-)
Bye, J
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