Tab titles don't reflect current directory or process running

[stereokai]

• OS version and name: Windows 10 64bit
• Hyper.app version: 1.0.0
• Link of a Gist with the contents of your .hyper.js: hyper.js gist
• Relevent information from devtools: N/A
• The issue is reproducible in vanilla Hyper.app: Reproducible in vanilla

Issue

Current directory is not displayed. All tab titles display "Shell" regardless of which shell I am using (tried cmd and Bash on Ubuntu on Windows).

[audunolsen]

This is true of macOS too.

[stereokai]

@audunolsen in version 1.0.0?

I assumed it was Windows only because of this notice: parro-it/hyperterm-title#5

[audunolsen]

Yes.

Tab titles doesn't reflect directory or process running.

[stereokai]

I stole your comment for a better issue title :)

[parro-it]

Hi, since my plugin hyperterm-title is now embedded in core, tabs title is now managed directly by your shell. There is a special escape sequence command that is meant to set terminal title.

You have to setup a shell prompt that uses this escape sequence in order to avoid "Shell" as tab title.

[parro-it]

Checkout pure prompt for zsh. I'm sure there are similar ones for bash or fish too

[parro-it]

I agree that a better default behaviour is useful... Show the Shell name should be simple to implement
The cwd or current foreground process instead was not trivial, previous hyper versions uses a polling procedure that is too resource heavy...

[stereokai]

@parro-it thanks for chiming in! I appreciate your work on this plugin as it is a feature probably most users if not everyone take it for granted.

With that said, I think an ideal solution would be supporting all terminals, in particular now that Hyper is meant to be used on all major operating systems. So perhaps additional methods of retrieving the shell title are needed :)

[stereokai]

@parro-it you were quicker than me!

[parro-it]

@stereokai 😁 any idea on how we Can listen for cwd change or foreground process change without polling?

[stereokai]

For what's it worth, on Windows, Cmder is capable of pulling the cwd, it might be possible to learn how they do it. Although it is only relevant to Windows terminals (ie. CMD and PowerShell) - as it doesn't work with the native Bash on Windows

[parro-it]

I found this issue there: cmderdev/cmder#815.
Seems they are using terminal escape codes too to set the title... but I'm not sure.
/cc @samvasko @Stanzilla @MartiUK @Jackbennett

[parro-it]

This is my linux terminal, with two tabs running bash:

It display current shell user and name of the shell. I had to comment lines on my .bashrc that set the title using escape codes. The window title reflect that of the current tab.

I think this behavior could be acceptable for hyper too...