Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 19:35:02 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: todd ritzka <acidrop50@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help!! Message-ID: <20000516193502.G233@parish> In-Reply-To: <20000516164951.22984.qmail@web1404.mail.yahoo.com>; from acidrop50@yahoo.com on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:49:51AM -0700 References: <20000516164951.22984.qmail@web1404.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:49:51AM -0700, todd ritzka wrote:
> hello,
> recently i was modifying my.cshrc file and i wanted to change my
> prompt.(by the way im not logged on as root) when i changed it and
> rebooted the computer the prompt was still the same. my qestion is,
> where else could the prompt have been set??
>
Post the ``set prompt'' line from your ~/.cshrc
BTW, the prompt variable in csh is static, you can't set it up
(directly) to change with the current directory (if you are wanting
the pwd in the prompt). If you want to so that you need to alias
cd(1), for example
alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="`hostname`:`pwd`{!}% "'
will give you
parish:/usr/marko{62}%
(parish is my hostname).
and
alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="`hostname`:`pwd`{!}% "; printf "\033]0;%s\007" `pwd`'
will do the same, but set the title bar of an xterm to the pwd.
Note that in both of those there are a mixture of single quotes (')
and back-ticks (`).
BTW, you don't need to reboot to implement changes to ~/.cshrc; just
type
source ~/.cshrc
at the prompt (although that only affects the current console/xterm)
HTH
> thanks
>
> mel
>
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