Re: preexec like behavior ? (feature request)

[Chet Ramey]

Tobias wrote:


> Often a user will start a long-lived foreground job such as top, an editor, an 
> email client, etc, and wishes the name of the job to be shown in the title. 
> This is a more thorny problem and is only achieved easily in zsh.

I don't see a compelling reason to add this functionality.  There are
several workarounds one can use when one is found in this situation
(e.g., using redirection to echo the right characters to the appropriate
window), and, as you noted, an unofficial patch available for folks
who want to integrate it into their copies of bash.

Chet