Re: TTY, PWD, and other useful strings in hardstatus, shelltitle, etc

[Eric D. Hendrickson]

What I do, is I use tcsh and have the following line in my .cshrc
file:

    if ($?TERM && ($TERM == "xterm" || $TERM == "screen" || $TERM == "rxvt")) 
then
      alias cwdcmd 'echo -n "]2;"/address@hidden"$cwd]1;"{$HOST}""'
      cwdcmd
    endif

Note that those control characters go like this:

"ESC]2;"
"$cwd^GESC]1;"
"^G"

in case they don't make it through the email...  cwdcmd is a command
that tcsh runs each time you change directories.

You should be able to work the tty in there too, since tcsh stores the
tty as "$tty".

This produces a titlebar (this works in PuTTY too) like (e.g.) this:

/address@hidden/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

Hope this helps.

Eric
(screen user since late 80's!)

Peter Beckman <address@hidden> writes:

> I know it has been discussed many-a-time before (I've read the July 2004
> thread in the archives), but I wanted to bring it up again to see if there
> was any more movement within the development on it.
>
> Jason White made a patch to 4.0.2 that creates %T asan escape code that
> will echo the TTY.  Nice.  I'd love nothing more than to patch my code
> on all of my servers!
>
> So, I've spend the last 2 hours (instead of patching screen) trying to
> figure out a way to set up the windowlist or window title to show the TTY
> and/or the current working directory for that screen window.
>
> I thought about writing the tty to a file and have a backtick command read
> it, but then how to determine which file goes with which screen, and
> furthermore how to determine if it is a single or multiple files!  Too bad
> I couldn't do something like this:
>
>      backtick 1 5 5 cat ~/.screen/win.$WINDOW.pwd
>      backtick 2 5 5 cat ~/.screen/win.$WINDOW.tty
>
> because I could write those files every time a new window was created...
>
> I know I can use the escape codes in my prompt and put $TTY in there, but
> then my prompt doesn't auto-update the command being run.
>
> Any ideas that aren't as much as a hack?
>
> Beckman
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