shorten tab text

[hteibler]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

shorten tab text
if you have a very long path, one tab can consume nearly the whole window size space
or many tabs with long path, us

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

ability to configure tab, like the prompt
eg, only last 2 layers of directory
eg. user without hostname
eg. only path
eg. ...

[zadjii-msft]

You can already override the starting title of the window with the tabTitle parameter.

Most shells let you change the title at runtime - see #2304 for details. cmd lets you change the title with the title command, and I know that bash by default sets the title using the PS1 variable.

If you're looking for more dynamic text in the tab, there's also #1320.

There's also #597 for adding settings to manually control the width of the tab.

@hteibler Would you say that any of the above issues have an appropriate solution to your problem?

[hteibler]

I think I don't get it ...
in CMD title is working
but no clue with ubuntu
and "tabTitle" in json profile is ignored, --> should overrule

[hteibler]

found a solution for me: don't display user@host for my default user in title
in .bashrc ( of default user) I removed \u@\h from here:
old:
PS1="[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a]$PS1"
new:
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PS1="[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\w\a]$PS1"
;;
*)
;;
esac

[zadjii-msft]

tabTitle is more correctly "starting title" - it's just the title that the shell starts with. As you've discovered, bash resets the title on each prompt. There's another setting we've added, suppressApplicationTitle that should prevent bash from setting the title at all, though it's a little buggy in 0.7.

Since you've seemed to found a solution that works for you, I'm going to close this thread. Thanks!