Hyper: Ability to change the tab name

[lardissone]

It's not high priority but it's something useful.

In some cases you have several commands running in multiple tabs that looks the same but in different projects (example: frontend node dev command and API node dev command).

It would be nice to be able to manually change the name, like Terminal.app on OSX:

[parro-it]

You may want to check my hyperterm-title plugin.
It sets the title of tabs in the same way that iTerm does

[lardissone]

@parro-it it's great, but it's not exactly what Terminal.app does. You can't manually change the title in this case.

[timothyis]

Perhaps this is better as a plugin?

[parro-it]

Perhaps this is better as a plugin?

Yes, I agree. it would be great to have a context menu in the tab to add a 'Chnage tab name' item.
It would also be great to write a change tab color plugin, I use this feature very often in iterm...

[kbrock]

The plugin works great for me.
In bash I have a function to set the title. Besides one tweak, this has been working for me for all other terminal programs as well:

function title() { echo -e "\033]0;${1:?please specify a title}\007" ; }

[jadaradix]

@kbrock 👍 I put this in .bash_profile and with the hyperterm-title plugin I can set the title as easy as title "hello hyper".

[kbrock]

@jadaradix @lardissone I added the sample function over in parro-it/hyperterm-title#3
Hopefully it will be more friendly to others who have this need

[OJFord]

IMO this functionality is much nearer 'core' than "install this third-party plugin, add this to your shell config, and then run this command".

[kbrock]

@OJFord Think this functionality is already in master and will come out in the next release without the title ==> https://github.com/zeit/hyper/pull/892

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

@kbrock does that PR resolve this issue? It looks like a coding update, not a way for users to set tab titles. As per https://github.com/parro-it/hyperterm-title, this is in fact in core, and the issue should probably be resolved.

[chabou]

Agreed. Thanks!

[urikphytech]

Is this functionality available in version 2.0.0? I'm on mac and don't see this option anywhere.
Thanks

[parro-it]

It's not an option, you have to set it via shell commands.
You can see above how...

[urikphytech]

TL;DR

1. Add this line to your .bash_profile file:
   function title() { echo -e "\033]0;${1:?please specify a title}\007" ; }
2. reload terminal, or type command: source ~/.bash_profile
3. type title NEW_TITLE to change tab title

[terrancecorley]

Can someone explain how to get this working on a Windows 10 + Git Bash environment?

[awarmfastbear]

@terrancecorley

add your title text to your local bash profile.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46458832/how-to-change-title-of-git-terminal-in-windows

[JanDeDobbeleer]

For reference, people looking to do this when using PowerShell, you can use this function to achieve the same (and not having it display Shell because that's silly)

function Set-ConsoleTitle {
    param(
        [string]
        $title
    )
    $escapeChar = [char]27
    return "$escapeChar]2;$title`a"
}

Set-ConsoleTitle PowerShell

[krodelabestiole]

1. Add this line to your .bash_profile file:
   function title() { echo -e "\033]0;${1:?please specify a title}\007" ; }
2. reload terminal, or type command: source ~/.bash_profile
3. type title NEW_TITLE to change tab title

hi, I use WSL and this simply doesn't work :

function title ()
{
        echo -e "\033]0;${1:?please specify a title}\007"
}

in ~/.bash_aliases

after being sourced it just returns an empty line in the console, no change in the tab name :

kro@minipoutre ~  title
-bash: 1: please specify a title
kro@minipoutre ~  title 'test'

kro@minipoutre ~

I use hyper 2.1.2 and I'm brand new to it. Has anything changed lately ?

[sjtuzbx]

1. Add this line to your .bash_profile file:
   function title() { echo -e "\033]0;${1:?please specify a title}\007" ; }
2. reload terminal, or type command: source ~/.bash_profile
3. type title NEW_TITLE to change tab title

hi, I use WSL and this simply doesn't work :

function title ()
{
        echo -e "\033]0;${1:?please specify a title}\007"
}

in ~/.bash_aliases

after being sourced it just returns an empty line in the console, no change in the tab name :

kro@minipoutre ~  title
-bash: 1: please specify a title
kro@minipoutre ~  title 'test'

kro@minipoutre ~

I use hyper 2.1.2 and I'm brand new to it. Has anything changed lately ?

1. Add this line to your .bash_profile file:
   function title() { echo -e "\033]0;${1:?please specify a title}\007" ; }
2. reload terminal, or type command: source ~/.bash_profile
3. type title NEW_TITLE to change tab title

hi, I use WSL and this simply doesn't work :

function title ()
{
        echo -e "\033]0;${1:?please specify a title}\007"
}

in ~/.bash_aliases

after being sourced it just returns an empty line in the console, no change in the tab name :

kro@minipoutre ~  title
-bash: 1: please specify a title
kro@minipoutre ~  title 'test'

kro@minipoutre ~

I use hyper 2.1.2 and I'm brand new to it. Has anything changed lately ?

I'm running into same problem in ubuntu 18.04, looking for help

[pelayomendez]

This works for me in Ubuntu 18.04

function title(){
  if [[ -z "$ORIG" ]]; then
    ORIG="$PS1"
  fi
  TITLE="\[\e]2;$*\a\]"
  PS1="${ORIG}${TITLE}"
}

[PauloB04]

This works for me in Ubuntu 18.04

function title(){
  if [[ -z "$ORIG" ]]; then
    ORIG="$PS1"
  fi
  TITLE="\[\e]2;$*\a\]"
  PS1="${ORIG}${TITLE}"
}

I'm using Windows 10 with Hyper version 3.0.2 and THIS worked for me! Thanks.