Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watcgl!watmum!rmariani From: rmariani@watmum.waterloo.edu (Rico Mariani) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: title bar hack Keywords: D.I.Y. Message-ID: <2960@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Date: 18 Jan 88 17:11:08 GMT Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu Reply-To: rmariani@watmum.waterloo.edu (Rico Mariani) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 23 Just a comment on all of this console title bar hacking in shells and whatever. It seems like a really neat idea to put something useful in the title bar instead of the dumb NewCLI message but we're going about this all wrong. Don't hack the shell... write a command called 'settitle' that places it's arguments in the title bar. Then I can alias whatever commands I like to put whatever I want in the title bar whenever I feel like it. Make this a shell built in if you're really gung ho but you don't have to do this to make it usable. Maybe have it read stdin for one line if there are no arguments or if a flag is set. I'd like to alias cd '%var cd $var;settitle $var' or maybe to some slick trick like date >ram:foo ; settitle