From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 1 3: 7:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0672150E8 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 03:07:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10olRv-000M2I-0A; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:07:13 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id LAA01405; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:06:35 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA15110; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:06:33 +0100 Message-ID: <3753B04E.D16F9B99@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 11:05:02 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Annelise Anderson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why we don't mess with root's shell: Re: Need help with Root shell? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Annelise Anderson wrote: > > On Sat, 29 May 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 01:24:25PM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > Suppose FreeBSD were to provide as a default shell for root and > > > for users something with a few more features than sh and csh-- > > > filename completion, command recall and editing, a prompt easy > > > to configure to tell you who you are and where you are. > > > > > > > Which one of those features does csh(1) *not* have? > > It does not have all of them. :) > Oh yes it does :-) for filename completion (and Ctrl-D for listing possible matches). recall and editing: % !3:s/foo/bar see man csh prompt (add the alias to your ~/.cshrc): % alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="`whoami`@`hostname`:`pwd`{\!}% "' % cd /var/log marko@marder-1:/var/log{23}% > AA > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message