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On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:28:03PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <42719BA0.5030901@samsco.org>
>             Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> writes:
> : Why does 'cd' have to be aliased?
> 
> It doesn't.  In historical csh implementations (eg, sunos 4, 4.2 or
> 4.3 BSD) needed to alias cd to get the prompt set, but tcsh has indeed
> obviated that need, with all the benefits that you describe.
> 
> Warner

I got two standard settings for tcsh:

Depended on the TERM set:

   alias precmd 'echo -n "^[]2;$HOST^G"'

And prompt:

set prompt = '%B%m%b %n %C3 %# '

I do put the user in because of using more then myself and root.

-- 
Regards, Ulf.

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