On Mar 24, 10:51 pm, Michael B Allen <mial...@ioplex.com> wrote:
> I use vim "minimal" which apparently does not support the 'set title' command.
>
> 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:
>
> 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.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Mike

Don't bother with that. Just add the following line to your ~/.vimrc:

set title

If you want more information, just type `: title'