Re: Screen title, not just $WINDOW number, in prompt?

[Thomas Köhler]

Steven Brown wrote:
> I'd like to set the title I've assigned a given window (via C-a A) in my
> prompt just like I can currently set $WINDOW.  Is there a way to do
> this?  I read the manual section on setting screen titles, but it seemed
> to be from an xterm title perspective and also melted my brain. :)

I'm not sure I understand your request (how do you set $WINDOW?),
but maybe you just want to
    echo -e -n '\033khello world\033\\'
(or put an escape, then k, then your title, then escape and a
backslash into your prompt).

While my .zshrc is set up to echo "zsh (tty-number)" in the
prompt, it also does this fine precmd (which is executed directly
before the current line gets executed):

TTYSTRING=$(tty|sed -e 's,/dev/,,' -e 's/tty//')
export TTYSTRING

function preexec {
   if [ "$TERM" = "screen" ] ; then 
      local y
      y=(${(s: :)1})
      echo -e -n "\033k$y[1] ($TTYSTRING)\033\\"
   fi
}

Ciao,
Thomas

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