Re: xterm title bars

[Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 04:04:41PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:21:31PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> > I've used this (excellent) howto to set my prompt up nicely, and to
> > echo things like pwd, time, and username to the xterm title.  However,
> > I would love to add {basename} of the currently active process to the
> > title...
> 
> You can't do that in bash, as it doesn't provide any way to get the name of
> the currently executing process in a fashion that would let you set the
> title.
> 
> You can do it if you're willing to switch to zsh as your shell, though,
> because it has PRECOMMAND (or whatever zsh calls it).
> 
eerrrr...  I don't think Im ready for that.  Maybe soon!  

thanks for the info,
matt