Re: Window Titling

[Dan Mahoney (Gushi)]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) wrote:

> All,
>
> I'm using the \033k hack to auto-title my windows in the listing brought up 
> by ctrl-a " (and also in the statusline).
>
> Is there a way to embed color information into this screen (for example, I 
> might want any window with a root shell to have a red title).

Related question:

The gnu screen manual about dynamic titles only says that you can give 
screen something to "search" for -- basically, says:

'screen has a shell-specific heuristic that is enabled by setting the 
window’s name to search|name'

It's a confusing section of manual, as neither search nor name are literal 
there.

Instead, I directly print the escape sequences IN my .bashrc/cshrc to give 
me useful window titles like where I'm sshing from/to, etc.  (This seems 
important given the above context), rather than having screen try to parse 
the output of my shell and guess about what the title should be.

As an example, in cshrc I do:

alias postcmd   'printf "\033%s%s %s %s\033\\" "k" "\!#:0" "\!#:$" 
"[$HOST]"'

(This gives me a title like ssh hostname, where the command could be ssh 
-v -v -t hostname)

The screen manual should certainly make mention of this method, and 
include examples for bash and the like.  I'm willing to contribute text 
and examples.  Is this a better question for screen-dev?

-Dan

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