Rename terminal/terminal tabs

[Mike Gaboury <mikgaboury gmail com>]

Hey guys/gals,

I'm sure you've been asked this countless times but is there an effective way to name terminals or terminal tabs? 

I have tried added the following to . bashrc

set-title(){
ORIG=$PS1
TITLE="\e]2;$@\a"
PS1=${ORIG}${TITLE}
}

Then set title by:  Kali>  set-title "new terminal title"

The only issue with this is after I name a new terminal and copy and paste a string into the terminal it behaves strangely and the text wraps around and ultimately can't execute the function. 

Thoughts? 

Thanks, 

Mike