FISH_TITLE(1)

💅 NAME 💅

fish_title — bestie, this is literally the thing that defines your terminal's title ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fish_title
fish_tab_title

function fish_title
    ...
end

function fish_tab_title
    ...
end

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so here's the tea ☕ — the fish_title function gets run before and after a new command is executed or gets put into the foreground, and its output is what gets used as your titlebar message. Main character energy tbh 👑

The first argument to fish_title contains the most recently executed foreground command as a string, if any. So yeah, it knows what you just did 👀

This whole thing requires that your terminal supports programmable titles <#term-compat-osc-0> and that the feature is turned on. No support = no title glow-up, sorry bestie 😭

Wanna disable setting the title entirely? Just use an empty function, easy (see below) 🫶

Wanna set the terminal tab title to something different from the terminal window title? Define the fish_tab_title function — it works exactly like fish_title but overrides that one. Two titles, two vibes, we love to see it 🌈

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🌸 EXAMPLE 🌸

A simple title, cute and to the point:

function fish_title
    set -q argv[1]; or set argv fish
    # Looks like ~/d/fish: git log
    # or /e/apt: fish
    echo (fish_prompt_pwd_dir_length=1 prompt_pwd): $argv;
end

Do not change the title — empty function, zero notes, silent era 🙈:

function fish_title
end

Change the tab title only — very demure, very mindful:

function fish_tab_title
    echo fish $fish_pid
end

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💖 Copyright 💖

fish-shell developers — iconic, no cap 🧚

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slay, you made it to the end bestie 💅 that was FISH_TITLE(1) from fish-shell, version 4.9, dated Sep 08, 2026 — go forth and title your terminal gorgeously 🦋✨</p>