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From: casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
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Subject: Re: changing titles
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Date: 14 Feb 90 20:16:48 GMT
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| From: battlewr@BATTLE.ESD.ORNL.GOV (David L. Battle)
| 
| Chris Keane writes:
| 
| > alias cd 'cd \!* ; echo ^[]2\;$HOSTNAME\:$cwd^G'
| >
| > which changes my window title to where ever I am, eg zeus:/system/usr/keane
| 
| Neat.  The only problem is that after you come back from an su, rlogin,
| telnet, etc. session the title bar isn't updated.

  And David's solution is full of special cases.  Why don't you just put
the window title control string in you prompt and be done with it?  That
way you leave it to your shell to decide which prompt to display and when
to display it.  Try something like:

	alias	cd	'cd \!*; setprompt'
	alias	pushd	'pushd \!*; setprompt'
	alias	popd	'popd \!*; setprompt'
	alias	setprompt 'set prompt = "^[]2;$HOSTNAME\:$cwd^G% "'

(Actually my setprompt does a lot more than this, but you get the idea.)

Casey