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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: title bar hack
Message-ID: <2461@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 20 Jan 88 17:46:00 GMT
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Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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rmariani@watmum.waterloo.edu (Rico Mariani) wrote:
>Don't hack the shell...write a command called 'settitle' that places
>it's arguments in the title bar.

I agree.  Bill Hawes' new WShell (coming soon) has a zillion options
on the prompt, one of them is 'execute this file'.  He supplies a
program called cdtitle that puts the current dir name in the title
bar.  It's small and resident-able (his version of resident does
checksumming) so doesn't cost much.

>Then I can alias whatever commands I like to put whatever I want in
>the title bar whenever I feel like it.
...
>alias cd '%var cd $var;settitle $var'

Of course this idea is better than building it into the prompt, as you
don't need to run the titling program after each command.

>Let's build good tools, not ugly kludges.

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page
"I don't know such stuff.  I just do eyes."  -- from 'Blade Runner'