From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 16 09:44:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA23595 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:44:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA23409 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id SAA05427 ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 18:42:11 +0200 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id SAA03710 ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 18:42:36 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.5/keltia-uucp-2.7) id IAA07083; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:22:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199604160622.IAA07083@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: Configuration To: richmond@cronus.oanet.com (Raymond Richmond) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:22:50 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: markb@chartway.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Raymond Richmond at "Apr 15, 96 07:30:18 pm" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1889 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Raymond Richmond said: > I use this little hack in my .cshrc to give me easily modified prompts. > This one give you a machine name as well as present directory referenced > from users home directory. Use a Real Men Shell[tm] like tcsh. You don't need to alias cd/pushd/popd anymore... > if ($?prompt) then > # An interactive shell -- set some stuff up > set mch = `hostname -s` > alias prompt 'set noglob;\\ > set prompt = `dirs`;\\ > set prompt = "${mch}:{!}:${prompt[1]}>";\\ > unset noglob' > alias popd 'popd \!*; prompt' > alias pushd 'pushd \!*; prompt' All of these would be set prompt="%m:%h:%~%# " Every cd/pushd/popd will now work as expected, changing the prompt automatically and so on. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #12: Sun Apr 14 16:01:04 MET DST 1996