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Currently, there is no way to influence the naming of the Terminals view and its tabs. I would propose to allow renaming both the view and the tabs freely. In order to indicate the type of the terminal, either a text prefix or a nice icon would be helpful.
On Windows there is <code>title</code> command that lets to change title of cmd.exe window. I think it would be great if this could work wit TCF terminals. And wouldn't using CLI command be cooler approach to change title for any TCF shell?
The drawback of allowing the remote change the terminal's tab is that you cannot explicitly navigate to a specific tab any more using Ctrl+3. I am OK adding functionality that allows the user change his terminal tabs (we actually support that already in a proprietary extension of the Terminal). Allowing the remote change a tab title through some sort of escape sequences is a different request and should be tracked by a different bug if desired. That said, I personally don't think going that route would be worth the effort. It not only looks like a can of worms to me - too many different kinds of remotes to consider - it also potentially breaks the ability to navigate to a specific tab as mentioned above.
Actually, the request tracking remote context (pwd or exectued command) is discussed in bug 441652 . Let's use this bug for statically assigning a user'defined name to a tab.
The Terminal component of the Eclipse Ecosystem has a new home. The Terminal is now part of the Eclipse CDT project[1]. This change means a new Git repo[2], P2 site[3] and Bugzilla component. The terminal will continue to be delivered as part of the quarterly Simultaneous Release of Eclipse as well. The marketplace entry[4] had not been updated in a few years. It will once again install the latest release of the terminal on the latest release of the whole IDE (currently 2020-03). If this bug is no longer relevant, please feel free to comment or close the bug. If you can confirm if this issues still occurs in the latest release please do let me know in a comment. [1] https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/User/NewIn911 [2] https://git.eclipse.org/c/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git (in the terminal directory) [3] current release is 9.11 - P2 site https://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/9.11/ [4] https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/tm-terminal (This comment was added to all open terminal bugs along with changing the Product/component pair to CDT/terminal.)
