I am trying for days now, to set a custom Title to my terminal, I'm using bash as shell and I succeeded set a title only when a command is running with COMMAND_PROMPT.
I would like to know if there is a possibility to make this title permanent and appear when I open my terminal window.
You should be able to set that permanently from Terminal > Preferences > Profiles > Window.
Set your custom title on the Title textbox (ex. "TEST123").
You can also check/uncheck the other checkboxes here to show/hide the other elements of your title bar. For example, the "Active process name" will display bash (if bash is your login shell).
Try to uncheck them all then save that profile (Shell > Use Settings as Default) and restart your Terminal. When you open a new Terminal window, it should just show the title (and the current directory, which will get to in a moment) like this:
If you also want to get rid of the current directory, you'll have to add this to your .profile in your home directory (as mentioned on this answer):
unset PROMPT_COMMAND
When you again restart the Terminal, it should only have your custom title:
You can set the title like this :
echo -n "\033]0;${USER}#${HOST}\007"
More info here:
If you want this when you open the terminal, you can add your title to the .bachrc file
From the Terminal manual, if you look for "keyboard shortcuts" it states that you can edit a terminal title by doing:
Shift-Command-I
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I am using a oh-my-zsh shell in an Apple terminal (2.11) in full screen, and by default the name of the tabs is the name of the program being run (eg. vim).
Is there an easy way to set the title of the individual terminal tabs to the filename currently opened with vim?
The terminal window title is already set, but not visible in full screen mode. What I'm looking for is to get at a glance the title of all terminal tabs where vim is opened.
Screenshot below:
The solution seems to use vim script shared in https://stackoverflow.com/a/48975505/4756084. It sets the title dynamically based on what file is currently being viewed — which you cannot obtain by going into Terminal Preferences > Tab, and checking "Active process name" and "Arguments" (that would only display the name of the file opened when typing vim file.ext, ignoring any file opened with :e file2.txt, switches between vim panes, etc.)
(With oh-my-zsh, uncommenting DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true" in ~/.zshrc might help, as suggested in https://superuser.com/questions/292652/change-iterm2-window-and-tab-titles-in-zsh, although it seems optional after the step above.)
Is there a way to make NeoVim as default text/code editor (without any bad side effects) ?Trust me, I looked to lots of StackOverflow question/answers and tried a few things but nothing worked for me.
Note: I'm on macOS Big Sur (version 11.2.1). What I want is when I click on files to open in NeoVim.
--> For example, in ~/.zshrc (and added to ~/.bash_profile also just in case) I have:
Note: zsh is my default shell
alias nvim=$HOME/nvim-osx64/bin/nvim
export EDITOR="nvim"
export VISUAL="nvim"
When I do set in Terminal it shows:
EDITOR=nvim
VISUAL=nvim
And yes, I quit and started the terminal (I'm using iTerm2). I even reboot.
--> I will place my $PATH here just in case it has anything to do it that. When I do echo $PATH it shows:
--> And, just in case someone suggests:
I can't Select a File > Open With... and select NeoVim as default text editor, since that option doesn't show and I can't do Choose Other since I can't select NeoVim in that way.
If anyone needs more information, please say and I will edit the question with that info. Thanks!
Setting variables in the terminal will not affect the GUI file associations. To do that you have to change the OS's file associations.
Though it appears to be a small project and unsupported, I've had a good experience using duti. It's a wrapper around the Apple file extension API. The configuration did take me a minute to figure out. I'll post it if I can find it.
After a while I found the answer to my own question, here it is how you can set NeoVim in Mac as the default text editor. Now, you will be able click on files and opening them in NeoVim:
Some people recommended me to have a look at the follow links:
https://gist.github.com/Huluk/5117702
https://superuser.com/questions/139352/mac-os-x-how-to-open-vim-in-terminal-when-double-click-on-a-file
That didn't work for me but it served as a reference to look up related topics (automator + neovim).
After a while, I discover this blog:
https://blog.schembri.me/post/neovim-everywhere-on-macos/
Go and have a look at the blog, but here it is how you do it:
Launch Automator (Finder -> Applications -> Automator)
New Document -> Choose a type for your document: Application
In Actions search for Run AppleScript and drag that to where it says something like "Drag actions here..."
Delete the default example of AppleScript
Copy and Paste the code in the blog (where it says NeoVim.app) to where it previous had the default code
Save the new Automator app (save as aplicattion format). Save it in the Applications folder
Right-Click a file type you wish to open every time you click on them (e.g. .php file). Select Get Info or do cmd + i, it will open informations about that file. Scroll to wher it says Open With and select Other. Then just go to Aplicattions folder and select your new NeoVim "app".
Do the same to other file types if you wish.
You can now double click on your PHP files (or others if you did the same) and open them in NeoVim. Enjoy!
Note: You really need to do Right-Click, Get Info and look for Open With to change in all files with that extension. If you skip Get Info and just Right-Click + Open With, it will only work for that specific file...
This is the code from the blog:
on run {input, parameters}
set cmd to "nvim"
if input is not {} then
set filePath to POSIX path of input
set cmd to "nvim \"" & filePath & "\""
end if
tell application "iTerm"
create window with default profile
tell the current window
tell the current session to write text cmd
end tell
end tell
end run
This would open a new window even if you already had one open.
I change it so that it would open in a tab:
on run {input, parameters}
set cmd to "nvim"
if input is not {} then
set filePath to POSIX path of input
set cmd to "nvim \"" & filePath & "\""
end if
tell application "iTerm"
tell the current window
create tab with default profile
tell the current session to write text cmd
end tell
end tell
end run
Note: I'm using iTerm2. If you are using another Terminal Emulator, change where it says iTerm to the name of your terminal...
For anyone using Kitty on MacOS, I found a pretty simple way to accomplish this using the remote control feature.
First you need the following set in your kitty.conf:
allow_remote_control yes
listen_on unix:/tmp/mykitty
Using Automator like in #DGF's answer, I created an Application with the "Run Shell Script" action, and this is the script:
if [ -z "$(pgrep kitty)" ]
then
open /Applications/kitty.app
sleep 3 # allow ample time to startup and start listening
fi
/usr/local/bin/kitty # --to=unix:/tmp/mykitty-$(pgrep kitty) launch --type=os-window nvim "$#"
Save that as an application somewhere, and select it from "Open with"!
Note: to be honest, the logic to handle starting up kitty if it's not already running is a little flaky. But it seems to work great when kitty is already running, which of course it is most of the time for me. Also, it doesn't work at all if kitty is running but has no windows. :\
Choose nvim as the default application by means of a txt file sub-menu like here with Preview for PDFs:
When I open Terminal on Mac, it starts in the root directory. I don't want to have to type cd to change my directory every time I open terminal, I want to be in that directory to begin with.
How do I make terminal start in a specific directory? Also, how do I make terminal always start full screen and in a particular color?
Also, what is the command to open text mate in terminal?
This perhaps better belongs on Ask Different, but here are two options to start a Terminal session at a particular location:
Open Terminal Preferences to the Settings section, and in the Window tab check the "Run command", and enter cd yourdirectorypath in the command field. It will automatically run for any new Terminal window.
Edit the ~/.bash_profile and add the cd yourdirectorypath line at the end.
As for starting fullscreen, if you quit Terminal with a fullscreen window open, it will launch that way.
You can set colour schemes in the preferences, there are many built-in "profiles".
I'm kind of confuse a little bit, I just got my Macbook Pro today and trying to do the C language programming through terminal and I use to use PC [Windows] and the "delete button" working as a backspace for Windows
now I'm on terminal before get into nled it was working normal but after nled command the delete button isn't effect anymore
is there a way to remove the text in nled ?? I even tried with fn+delete and isnot working still
Terminal has a preference setting to have the Delete key send Control-H instead of the usual delete character (ASCII DEL 0x7F):
Terminal > Preferences > Settings > [profile] > Advanced > Delete sends Ctrl-H
If you're going to be using nled often, you can create a custom settings profile just for running nled. Select an existing profile (e.g., Basic) and choose Duplicate Settings from the action menu (the gear icon at the bottom of the profile list). Customize the "Delete" preference, and then put the nled command in:
Terminal > Preferences > Settings > [profile] > Shell > Run command
Enable the "Run command" checkbox, and possibly also "Run inside shell". Now you can just choose this new profile from the Shell > New Tab/Window submenus and it will create a new terminal and run the nled command with the customized Delete behavior.
Is it possible to open a terminal window with 3 tabs. Each tab should have different path.
Example:
Tab1: /etc
Tab2: /bin
Tab3: /www/ tail -f file.txt
This is absolutely possible, but it will take some work on your part. The first thing you need is to set up each window/tab you want in your Settings:
I have 4 tabs that I open automagically every time I open Terminal. DB Shell, Editor, Server, and Shell. These are all within the Sasquatch (don't ask) project, thus the naming. Each of these should then have a unique command associated with them:
In this case, I'm executing vim. If you happen to have a specific directory you'd like to start off in, you can use something like vim ~/projects/main/. Really whatever you want to go in there is the command the shell will execute when it opens. Now you need to open all your windows/tabs:
Close everything.
Open a new window for each of your profiles.
Go to the Shell menu => New Tab/New Window => Select the profile you created above.
Repeat for each window or tab you want.
Once you have all of your windows and/or tabs open, save them as a Window Group.
Go to the Window menu => Save Window As Group....
Give your Window Group a name (this is helpful later).
If you want this group to open every time you open Terminal, check the box at the bottom of this screen, and then hit save.
Close out of all of your Windows/Tabs (time to test it!).
Open your new Window Group.
Go to the Window menu => Open Window Group => Select the group you just made.
This should pop up all the windows you just had, in the same position. Each of the commands you set up in Settings should be launched in their respective tabs.
As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Terminal makes this much easier to do, without creating new profiles for each command.
By default, Terminal will remember and restore the current working directory for each terminal in a Window Group. (If the working directory has been communicated to Terminal using an escape sequence. The default shell, bash, will do this at every command prompt. For other shells, you'll need to adapt the code in /etc/bashrc.)
If you create a terminal with Shell > New Command, Terminal will automatically run that command when a Window Group is opened. Terminal will automatically run a limited set of "safe" commands†, and when saving a Window Group there's an option to run all commands in the group.
Terminal also automatically does these for all windows when restarting Terminal with Resume enabled. So, you may not even have to create a Window Group, depending on your circumstances.
For your example case:
Use Shell > New Command to run "tail -f /www/file.txt".
Create a new tab and "cd /etc".
Create a new tab and "cd /bin".
Save them with Window > Save Windows as Group. Be sure to check the "Restore all commands" checkbox.
Each time you open that Window Group, it will recreate those windows and run the commands. If you need to run a command and specify the starting directory, in the New Command dialog check the "Run command inside a shell" checkbox and make the command "cd ; ".
Also note that you can tell Terminal to open your Window Group at startup with Terminal > Preferences > Startup > On startup, open > Window group. There's even a checkbox to set this when saving a new Window Group.
† The "safe" commands include anything listed in /etc/shells, plus: screen, tmux, emacs, vi/vim, nano, pico, and top. You can customize the list with "defaults write com.apple.Terminal RestorableCommands". Set it to an array of strings containing command names or full paths. Some commands have parameters that are "unsafe" to run automatically without user intervention, so by default these commands are only considered "safe" if they do not have any arguments. To make a command safe to run with arguments, add an asterisk, e.g., "top *" is in the default value for this preference.
You can do what you wish from within Terminal.
If in Terminal preferences (Settings tab) you create a new profile (or copy one with Duplicate Settings), you can then set each profile to run a command on startup (the "Shell" subgroup within the profile).
Then setup your tabs by using the Shell > New Tab menu to create the new tabs from each of the specific profiles that you created for the three different executables.
Then do the Save Window Group to save the group of tabs (and it will save their profiles as well).
I suggest the use if iTerm instead of Terminal. If only because it is more configurable. You can script it, but more important to you is that you can create a bookmark folder (one for each tab) and then "open in tabs" which will give you the behavior you seek.
I suspect you can control commands to be executed too. One of the programs I use creates a single-tab terminal window and arranges to execute a profile-setting script before continuing to the command prompt - the same should be feasible for a multi-tab terminal. The file is a MacOS X properties XML file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>CommandString</key>
<string>. /Applications/IBM/informix/demo/server/profile_settings</string>
<key>FontAntialias</key>
<false/>
<key>RunCommandAsShell</key>
<false/>
<key>ShowShellCommandInTitle</key>
<true/>
<key>TerminalType</key>
<string>xterm</string>
<key>WindowTitle</key>
<string>IDS Command Window</string>
<key>name</key>
<string>IDS Command Window</string>
<key>type</key>
<string>Window Settings</string>
</dict>
</plist>
You can click on it and the terminal window is launched, the profile settings are set, and then you have a command prompt to type at. Presumably, changing the 'dot' command into the 'tail' command of the question would work; it might be that the 'RunCommandAsShell' key set to '<true\>' would replace the normal shell with the command - which is perhaps more appropriate for the question.
Another way of doing this is by using the Elscripto ruby gem: https://github.com/Achillefs/elscripto. It allows yuo to easily specify terminal tabs using a YAML file
Open the tabs you want and set each one up as you wish, i.e. in tab 1, cd /etc, tab 2 cd /bin and so on. Now go to Window > Save Windows as Group. Click the checkbox 'Use window group when Terminal starts' and hey presto!
http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/features/split_panes
"Divide a tab up into multiple panes, each one of which shows a different session. You can slice vertically and horizontally and create any number of panes in any imaginable arrangement."
How to Create Custom iTerm2 Window Arrangements
Create a custom keyboard shortcut to automatically spawn a set of windows and splits with processes running.
With a shortcut cmd+shift+w transform split your window arrangement into 3 panels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg8AT-nds1Q