Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:57:51 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why csh on Root? Message-ID: <4537BC9F.8030806@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <200610191649.k9JGmxOl017063@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <200610191649.k9JGmxOl017063@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Martin McCormick wrote:
> One thing I was trying to accomplish is to have a bell in
>the root prompt. In the .cshrc file is a string
>
>set prompt="\007\!# "
>
> I have also tried replacing the \007 with the actual
>Control-G and even a \a. All produce an attempt to render a bell
>but what is sent to the remote terminal is ^G1#
>as in the actual ASCII characters ^ and G.
>
>I am not sure what to do to correct this problem as I do not get
>it in bash. A \a or \007 is sent literally.
>
> The env output for root on this system shows no environmental
>variables that should inhibit the beep so I am kind of stumped.
>
>
set prompt="hello%{^G%}there "
where ^G is a single control char, not two chars.
man tcsh, look for the section on shell variables and then scan down to
prompt.
--Alex
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