Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 22:27:01 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: pretty prompts Message-ID: <XFMail.990109222701.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <19990110055504.32132@welearn.com.au>
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On 09-Jan-99 Sue Blake wrote: > Years ago in DOS I went through a fancy prompt phase. It got really bad >:-) > For example, one prompt put a blue stripe permanently along the top of > the screen that showed current directory, time, and whatever other junk > would fit, with a simple gold prompt mark in the main scrolling part. > > Now in my second newbiehood I'm wondering, can I do that sort of stuff > with FreeBSD? I can't find any clues in the sh or bash man pages (only > basic useful stuff, nothing senseless, fun, or psychadelic) so maybe > there's something else to learn? .shrc has a basic start for changing prompt. Basically prompts revolve around PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 which can be set with standard export commands. This will get ye something like: [asmodai@daemon] (31) $ The 31 is the command history buffer and with ksh using vi-mode I can do a <ESC> 31 g to go back to command number 31. To get that result use something like (!) in yer .kshrc or equivalent shell. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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