The title in my example only contains the name of the current directory and the parent directory (so if I was in my Documents directory on my laptop called greyhound, the title would look like:
greyhound: cft/DocumentsI also use the same technique for my prompt so that when in real deep directories, my prompt does not go totally across the window. I have included a sample alias called setPrompt2 that does this. When editing a file with vi, it would look like:
greyhound: vi file_namePlease note that if you suspend a vi session, it will not change the title back, that will only happen when vi exits (or is killed). Changing directories with cd will always update the title bar.
Here are the aliases:
alias settitle 'set t=$cwd:h;echo -n "^[]2;${HOST}: "!*"^G"'
alias setPrompt 'settitle $t:t/$cwd:t'
alias cd 'cd !*;setPrompt'
alias vi 'settitle "vi !*"; vi !*; settitle $t:t/$cwd:t'
setPrompt
alias setPrompt2 'set t=$cwd:h;set prompt="${USER}@$HOST $t:t/$cwd:t !> ";settitle $t:t/$cwd:t'Please note that in the alias settitle there are two control characters, ^[ and ^G. Control characters do not copy and paste correctly so you will need to edit them by hand. To enter them you need to use vi and type control-v then then the control character that you want (control-[ and control-G). Emacs should work too, but I do not know how to enter them in emacs.
For those of you who are not comfortable with doing that, I have put the aliases in a file called settitle in my iDisk, here is the link: http://homepage.mac.com/cftarnas/FileSharing.html
In order to get these to work the file needs to be sourced by the shell. That can be done manually by typing entering the command:
source settitleThis assumes the aliases are in a file called settitle. To make it automatic whenever you start a new shell, put them in a file called .tcshrc in your home directory.
[Editor's note: As others have noted on other hints about aliases, you should actually store these in a file called aliases.mine in the path ~/Library/init/tcsh (you may need to create the init and tcsh directories first).]
Chris Tarnas

