On 2008-03-25, Michael B Allen <miallen@ioplex.com> wrote:
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> I use vim "minimal" which apparently does not support the 'set title'
> command.
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> Can anyone recommend a method for setting the xterm title to the
> filename being edited by vi?
>
> If vi exported FILENAME it would be easy to setup an alias for vi that
> called the following before launching vi:
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> PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${FILENAME}\007"'
>
> But I suspect there is a way to do it using vi and I just don't know
> about it.
>
Unless you use csh or tcsh, functions are almost always preferable to
aliases. A function would just have to determine which argument(s)
is/are filenames before passing the arguments to vi.