created March 28, 2003 · complexity intermediate · author warb · version 6.0
In KDE3 the renameSession will set the Konsole name. Add this to your vimrc file to name the session after the edited file.
autocmd BufReadPost * :silent !dcop $KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION renameSession %
This one set the title to the current working dirctory when you leave vim.
autocmd VimLeavePre * :silent !dcop $KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION renameSession $PWD
In KDE4 the qdbus will set the Konsole tab name. Create a script in your $PATH(for example: $HOME/bin) named as update_konsole_tab:
#/bin/sh
if [ "CHK$KONSOLE_DBUS_SESSION" == "CHK" ];then
exit 0
fi
OLD_FORMAT="%d : %n"
QDBUS_COMMAND="qdbus org.kde.konsole $KONSOLE_DBUS_SESSION"
if [ "CHK$1" == "CHKset" ];then
$QDBUS_COMMAND org.kde.konsole.Session.setTabTitleFormat \
0 "$2" 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
fi
if [ "CHK$1" == "CHKclean" ];then
$QDBUS_COMMAND org.kde.konsole.Session.setTabTitleFormat \
0 "$OLD_FORMAT" 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
fi
Then add these lines into your vimrc:
autocmd BufReadPost * :silent !update_konsole_tab set 'vim: %:t' autocmd VimLeavePre * :silent !update_konsole_tab clean
In KDE5, the KDE4 qdbus org.kde.konsole command needs to be appended with "-`pidof -s konsole`" which leads to the QDBUS_COMMAND variable becoming:
KONSOLE_PID="`pidof -s konsole`"
QDBUS_COMMAND="qdbus org.kde.konsole-$KONSOLE_PID $KONSOLE_DBUS_SESSION"
Comments
Dan thanks for the vim help, however I do not use konsole. So I modified my .tcshrc with this:
# This makes it possible to make vim automagically set the date and time # in the title bar. # alias vimdate '/bin/date "+%A, %B %e, %Y Time: %H:%M"' setenv mydate `vimdate` alias vi 'setenv mydate `vimdate` ; /usr/bin/vim \!* ; cd `pwd`'
then I read the how to for setting or unsetting the title in vim, so I set my .vimrc with this:
:auto BufEnter * let &titlestring = $USER . " on " . hostname() . " :
\ Viming: " . expand("%:p") . " Date: " . $mydate
:set title titlestring=%<%F%=%l/%L-%P titlelen=70
This with the .tcshrc mod will give you your name on machine Viming : filename : date and time.
I might not always use kde, so I have my xterm do my title work for me. My .tcshrc for my xterms, looks like this:
### ---------------------------------------------------------------
# This is where cd is overloaded and it adjusts the prompt.
#
# cds: change directory hybrid queueish stack
set cds = ( $HOME )
#
alias cd 'if ( ${#cds} >= 4 ) shift cds;\\
chdir \!*;\\
setprompt;\\
set cds = ( $cds $cwd );\\
echo $cds'
#
alias lastdir 'if ( ${#cds} <= 1 ) set cds = ( $cds $cwd );\\
@ idx = ${#cds} - 1;\\
chdir $cds[$idx];\\
setprompt;\\
set cds = ( $cds[1-$idx] );\\
echo $cds;\\
unset idx'
#
setprompt
#
### ---------------------------------------------------------------
#
#
### ---------------------------------------------------------------
# This is where the title bar of the xterm is set.
#
alias date '/bin/date "+%A, %B %e, %Y Time: %H:%M:%S"'
#
if ($?tcsh) then
# set prompt="$host{`whoami`}%\!: "
#
if ($?term) then
alias cwdcmd 'echo -n "^[]2;" "$USER on $host : $cwd `date`^G"'
cwdcmd
endif
#else # regular csh
# set prompt="$hostnm{`whoami`}\!: "
# if ($term == xterm) echo -n "^[]0;$hostnm^G"
endif
#
### ---------------------------------------------------------------
Note: In the alias cwdcmd line, after the `echo -n "^[]2;" the ^[ is a control h, I think.
This is why I aliases vi to 'setenv mydate `vimdate` ; /usr/bin/vim \!* ; cd `pwd` When I do a cd `pwd` it automatically changes my title bar to:
me on machine : $PWD day, date, Time: time.
This works with xterm, aterm, wterm, kterm, rxvt, and konsole. Please feel free to email me if you would like me to send you a copy.
Also I run Debian, so there for everything is generic; so I had to figure out how to modify/customize everything with dot files; this way I learn more by doing it myself.
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