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Re: preexec like behavior ? (feature request)
From: |
Tobias |
Subject: |
Re: preexec like behavior ? (feature request) |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:14:23 +0200 |
Hi Chet
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:50:03 -0400
"Chet Ramey" <chet@cwru.edu> wrote:
> Tobias wrote:
> > Often a user will start a long-lived foreground job such as top, an editor,
> > an email client, etc, and wishes the name of the job to be shown in the
> > title. This is a more thorny problem and is only achieved easily in zsh.
>
> I don't see a compelling reason to add this functionality. There are
> several workarounds one can use when one is found in this situation
> (e.g., using redirection to echo the right characters to the appropriate
> window), and, as you noted, an unofficial patch available for folks
> who want to integrate it into their copies of bash.
What do you mean with "using redirection to echo the right characters to the
appropriate
window". Can you point me to the right direction ? I have not found any way to
do that
for long-lived prozesses (eg. vim).
Defining "aliases"(functions) for a dozen(!) of programs is not a solution for
me.
Thanks in advance
Greets
Tobias