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Date:      Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:21:25 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Changing my login directory
Message-ID:  <4ad871310906181321k4f046df3ib0b14323707eeba6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090618185918.53de0f20.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Polytropon<freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:33:24 -0400, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>=
 wrote:
>> Thanks for that little tidbit in return -- I've been trying to
>> figure how prompt settings. :)
>
> See those:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0set promptchars =3D "%#"
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0set prompt =3D "%n@%m:%~%# "
>
> Or even:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0set prompt =3D "[%T] %n@%m:%~%# "
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0set prompt =3D "[%T] *%h =3D%? :%m/%l @%n %~%B%#%b "
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0set prompt =3D "*%h=3D%? [%T] %n@%m/%l:%~%B%#%b "
>
> There's lots of customization that you can do with csh's prompt
> variable; "man csh" is really very interesting.
>
> Ah yes, and don't forget to
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0set autolist
>
> which is very handy, by the way.
>

I'm usually pretty happy with default settings (which is why I've
never looked at the prompts in 'man csh'), but since I was nose-deep
in $HOME/.muttrc configs yesterday, this peaked my interest. :)


--=20
Glen Barber



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