Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:27:44 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: current <FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: tcsh Message-ID: <42719BA0.5030901@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <427196C0.5040506@chuckr.org> References: <427196C0.5040506@chuckr.org>
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Chuck Robey wrote:
> The first thing I do, after I've installed a new system (just before I
> copy over the ssh data) is to copy my .cshrc to my home dir. What's so
> important? I really like the two statements, which I show below, which
> give me my prompt:
>
> set prompt="%m:%{^[[34m%}`id -nu`%{^[[0m%}:%~:%{^[[31m#%h^[[0m%}%#"
> alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="%m%{^[[32m%}:`id
> -nu`%{^[[0m%}:%~:%{^[[31m#%h^[[0m%}%#"'
>
> My mailer is adding carriage returns to the cd line, maybe even to the
> prompt line, live with it.
>
> Any chance that something so basic as this, that improves things so
> awfully much, could be added to the .tcshrc? If the idea is liked well
> enough, I will edit it enough so that the special use of prompt strings
> that are specific to tcsh is made conditional.
Why does 'cd' have to be aliased? Doesn't 'prompt' act as a magic
variable that gets re-evaluated every time it's printed? Anyways,
a less colorful version that I use (can't even remember where I got
it) is:
set prompt = '[%B%m%b] %B%~%b%# '
Has the advantage of changing from a > to a # if you are the superuser,
so it gives approximately the same info as printing the username, but in
less space and without having to spawn a process every time. For
extra credit, there are variations that change the xterm title bar and
icon, too.
Scott
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