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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:14:10 +0100
From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 02:06:56AM +0000, Chuck Robey wrote:
> The first thing I do, after I've installed a new system (just before I 
> copy over the ssh data) is to copy my .cshrc  to my home dir.  What's so 
> important?  I really like the two statements, which I show below, which 
> give me my prompt:
> 
> set     prompt="%m:%{^[[34m%}`id -nu`%{^[[0m%}:%~:%{^[[31m#%h^[[0m%}%#"
> alias   cd      'cd \!*;set prompt="%m%{^[[32m%}:`id 
> -nu`%{^[[0m%}:%~:%{^[[31m#%h^[[0m%}%#"'

If this is up for grabs, could I add a vote for:

  set autolist

The lack of this setting is the one thing which bugs people familiar with
bash; I didn't even realise it was possible to fix it until I dug deep
through man pages. Now I always have to add it to .cshrc !

Regards,

Brian.