Inspired by I-57

Changing the title of your (xterm compatable) terminal window is old news .

Still, here’s a handy set of .zshrc stuff that lets you change it on the fly. For example, I have a dozen windows open, and size of them go to different routers. Each window (tab, really, iterm is excellent ) has the name of the router.

### set title block HOSTTITLE=${(%):-%n@%m}
TITLE=$HOSTTITLE
case $TERM in (xterm*|rxvt|screen)
  precmd () { print -Pn "e]0;$TITLE a" }
  preexec () { print -Pn "e]0;$TITLE a" } ;;
esac
function title (){
   if (( ${#argv} == 0 )); then
            TITLE=$HOSTTITLE
            return
   fi
   TITLE=$*
}
#### end set-title-block

This code will make your default title user@host. Change your title with “title new-window-title”. Enter title with no options to just put it back when you’re done.