Comments on: Set Terminal tab title in Mac OS X

By: Marius

Marius — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:14:47 +0000

Overriding PROMPT_COMMAND is a bad idea… OS X uses it to update internal directory/command variables it uses.

It can all be done via the PS1 variable anyway:

export PS1=’\e]0;\u@\h\a\W\$ ‘

By: Quora

Quora — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:33:06 +0000

How can I display the file name in the tab of a VIM editor window?…

First, what do you mean by “tab of a vim editor window”? This could mean many different things. But I suspect it means: – Vim running in a terminal window (text mode only, not gvim) – The terminal is a GUI application that offers tabbed-navigation Fo…

By: CharlyBr

CharlyBr — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:06:29 +0000

I’ve updated my post.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:23:45 +0000

link’s dead : (

By: leoman730

leoman730 — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:51:55 +0000

The link is dead. Do you have an alternative?

By: CharlyBr

CharlyBr — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:50:48 +0000

Which version of Mac OS are you running ?

By: John

John — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:40:42 +0000

I was happy to find this, but after installing, un-commenting the defaults in the conf file and running the command, my tabs haven’t changed. Something I’m doing wrong?