If you find yourself heading in and out of various remote servers (especially if done in the same Terminal window), then
this AppleScript should be quite useful. I found a
few other tips on this site about coloring Terminal windows, but none of them offered what I wanted: A single script which could be activated by a command key (via QuicKeys, iKey, Spark, etc.). The others seemed a bit too complex for such a simple task. A simple hostname and some
sed parsing, and you're golden.
A couple of notes on the script (duplicated in the script's comments as well):
- You need to be inside a shell, not within an application (e.g. vi, emacs, pine...).
- The script parses the hostname using sed, so you'll need to make sure your prompt has an identifiable character within it.
Regarding the other hints linked above, some are for random coloring and others specific to
ssh logins -- although I can't seem to get the .term files to open a new
ssh connection when changing the
ExecutionString entry in the term file. Maybe someone can add that trick to this post. Enjoy!
[
robg adds: I haven't tested this one...]