Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:27:07 +0000 From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Cc: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@freebsd.czest.pl>, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh Message-ID: <1328887627.38277.68.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgnebQUY8azv8fovQPkB%2BGgsQjaByZ6JwnNWjrM1hB65eQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAF6rxgnebQUY8azv8fovQPkB%2BGgsQjaByZ6JwnNWjrM1hB65eQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 19:52 -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: > In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) > there has been some discussion about changing the default cshrc file. > > I'd like to commit something like the following based on Chris's patch > at the end of the thread. This post is an attempt to open the change > to wider discussion. > > commit dbe6cb730686dd53af7d06cc9b69b60e6e55549c > diff --git a/etc/root/dot.cshrc b/etc/root/dot.cshrc > --- a/etc/root/dot.cshrc > +++ b/etc/root/dot.cshrc > @@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ > > alias h history 25 > alias j jobs -l > -alias la ls -a > +alias la ls -aF > alias lf ls -FA > -alias ll ls -lA > +alias ll ls -lAF > +alias ls ls -F Please, no. > # A righteous umask > umask 22 > @@ -17,19 +18,24 @@ umask 22 > set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin > /usr/local/bin $HOME/bin) > > setenv EDITOR vi > -setenv PAGER more > +setenv PAGER less > setenv BLOCKSIZE K Probably sensible. > if ($?prompt) then > # An interactive shell -- set some stuff up > set prompt = "`/bin/hostname -s`# " > set filec > - set history = 100 > - set savehist = 100 > + set history = 10000 > + set savehist = 10000 > + set autolist I think it'd be better for this to be "set autolist=ambiguous" - it changes an accidental keypress into a deliberate choice, and matches Linux a bit better. > + # Use history to aid expansion > + set autoexpand > set mail = (/var/mail/$USER) > if ( $?tcsh ) then > bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word > bindkey -k up history-search-backward > bindkey -k down history-search-forward > endif > + set prompt = "[%n@%m]%c04%# " > + set promptchars = "%#" > endif I always override the prompt anyway. My personal favourite is set prompt="%B%n@`hostname -s`%b:%/ %h% " but I see no real problem with the suggested prompt (although set prompt = "%n@%m:%c04%# " would at least save one character. Gavin
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