From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 2 11:43:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E176937B430 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:43:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-003dcwashp259.dialsprint.net ([206.133.15.149] helo=moo.holy.cow) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16LrHw-0006MJ-00; Wed, 02 Jan 2002 11:43:00 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D9B9850D8D; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:44:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:44:55 -0500 From: parv To: Wes Baehr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shell prompt contest Message-ID: <20020102194455.GA49267@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Wes Baehr , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020102191201.GA48648@moo.holy.cow> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message , wrote Wes Baehr thusly... > > I like my simple tcsh prompt: > %B[%@]%b [%n@%m] [%~] > i find it irritating when, more often than not, a prompt intermingles w/ other text... unless there is a "newline" -- and/or other highlighting characters -- before the prompt. i have simpler prompts (than for local xterm) for situations where time and/or line space is more important than the prompt itself, like on console or on a remote host. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message