Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:34:51 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: djkanter@northwestern.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting shell prompt for C-shell Message-ID: <20000721103451.A9878@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <200007210438.VAA38937@pike.osd.bsdi.com>; from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 09:38:22PM -0700 References: <20000721095347.A9557@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <200007210438.VAA38937@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
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John Baldwin said on Jul 20, 2000 at 21:38:22: > > > and > > ~ > (with tcsh on the same machine) > > Try changing to a different directory, then read the manpage for tcsh. :) Yes, sorry I wasn't very bright this morning. > Basically, %~ is like %/, but it will use ~ for your home directory, and > ~foo for foo's home directory instead of the actual path. If you typically > log into several machines, then a prompt such as "%B%n@%m%b:%~\n%# " can > be useful. It would render as follows: > > john@john:~ > > > but with the username and machine in bold. Looks useful, thanks. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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