Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:24:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Bernard <markb@chartway.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: Raymond Richmond <richmond@cronus.oanet.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Configuration Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960416132300.421A-100000@iway.chartway.com> In-Reply-To: <199604160622.IAA07083@keltia.freenix.fr>
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How can I use tcsh as the main shell so its not invoked over csh? Is
there a sample .tcshrc file I could see? Thanks for your help!
On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> 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
>
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