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How to make current filename show up as the window/console title? (Konsole being my terminal emulator) (programming.dev)
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When I'm editing with helix, I often have multiple instances of it running, one for each file, in different terminals (more precisely: in different tabs of my terminal emulator, Konsole). Currently, the title of these tabs reads just "Directoryname: helix". It would be really helpful if the titles included the current filename, so that I could see which tab has which file opened. Is there a way to do this?

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I know this is presumably because of you using konsole's tabs as a part of your existing workflow, so it fits in there, but have you considered using helix' multi buffer system? It is described here : https://helix-editor.vercel.app/usage/buffers

To get tabs to show up, you have to enable the so-called bufferline:

:set bufferline always

It shows the name of the file and is well integrated.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    Thanks, that's good to know, I'll see how well I can adapt my workflow to this. (The reason for using Konsole tabs so far is the easy switching via Alt+[number], but I suppose using Helix's integrated multi-document system should offer other advantages (e.g. regarding registers) that could outweigh this by far.)

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