Gnu screen, how to update dynamically the title of a window?

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Published on 2011-02-10T23:21:37Z Indexed on 2011/02/10 23:27 UTC
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I googled a lot, but I can't find the answer I'm looking for...

I'm trying to improve the aspect of GNU Screen using the screenrc file, I tuned colors, status line, caption and the list of the loaded windows.

The only thing I'm not able to achieve is getting the caption with the current executed command as in this picture, note the vim caption in the right pane.

What I currently have is this, and what I would like to obtain is having captions (and if possible also hardstatus line) with |0 less| 1 man instead of the current |0 bash| 1 bash.

How to do this? Thanks in advance.

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