filemanager label. do not hook remove() from List.

lib/widget.js

@@ -1775,8 +1775,9 @@ function Element(options) {
   this.setContent(options.content || '', true);
 
   if (options.label) {
-    this.append(new Box({
+    this._label = new Box({
       screen: this.screen,
+      parent: this,
       content: options.label,
       left: 2,
       top: this.border ? 0 : -1,
@@ -1784,10 +1785,10 @@ function Element(options) {
       shrink: true,
       style: this.style.label,
       fixed: true
-    }));
+    });
     if (this.screen.autoPadding) {
-      this.children[this.children.length-1].rleft = -this.ileft + 2;
+      this._label.rleft = -this.ileft + 2;
-      this.children[this.children.length-1].rtop = -this.itop;
+      this._label.rtop = -this.itop;
     }
   }
 
@@ -4054,13 +4055,21 @@ function List(options) {
       el.fixed = true;
     }
   });
+
+  // Ensure children are removed from the
+  // item list if they are items.
+  this.on('remove', function(el) {
+    self.removeItem(el);
+  });
 }
 
 List.prototype.__proto__ = Box.prototype;
 
 List.prototype.type = 'list';
 
-List.prototype.add = function(item) {
+List.prototype.add =
+List.prototype.addItem =
+List.prototype.appendItem = function(item) {
   var self = this;
 
   // Note: Could potentially use Button here.
@@ -4113,19 +4122,17 @@ List.prototype.add = function(item) {
   }
 };
 
-List.prototype._remove = List.prototype.remove;
+List.prototype.removeItem = function(child) {
-List.prototype.remove = function(child) {
+  var i = typeof child !== 'number'
-  if (typeof child === 'number') {
+    ? this.items.indexOf(child)
-    child = this.children[child];
+    : child;
-  }
-  var i = this.items.indexOf(child);
-  if (~i) this.items.splice(i, 1);
-  this._remove(child);
-};
 
-List.prototype.addItem = List.prototype.add;
+  if (~i && this.items[i]) {
-List.prototype.appendItem = List.prototype.add;
+    child = this.items.splice(i, 1)[0];
-List.prototype.removeItem = List.prototype.remove;
+    this.ritems.splice(i, 1);
+    this.remove(child);
+  }
+};
 
 List.prototype.setItems = function(items) {
   var i = 0
@@ -4947,6 +4954,7 @@ function FileManager(options) {
 
   options = options || {};
   options.parseTags = true;
+  // options.label = ' {blue-fg}%path{/blue-fg} ';
 
   List.call(this, options);
 
@@ -4954,6 +4962,10 @@ function FileManager(options) {
   this.file = this.cwd;
   this.value = this.cwd;
 
+  if (options.label && ~options.label.indexOf('%path')) {
+    this._label.setContent(options.label.replace('%path', this.cwd));
+  }
+
   this.on('select', function(item) {
     var value = item.content.replace(/\{[^{}]+\}/g, '').replace(/@$/, '')
       , file = path.resolve(self.cwd, value);
@@ -4967,6 +4979,9 @@ function FileManager(options) {
       if (stat.isDirectory()) {
         self.emit('cd', file, self.cwd);
         self.cwd = file;
+        if (options.label && ~options.label.indexOf('%path')) {
+          self._label.setContent(options.label.replace('%path', file));
+        }
         self.refresh();
       } else {
         self.emit('file', file);

test/widget-file.js

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ var fm = blessed.filemanager({
   width: 'half',
   top: 'center',
   left: 'center',
+  label: ' {blue-fg}%path{/blue-fg} ',
   cwd: process.env.HOME,
   keys: true,
   vi: true,