Re: tcsh

> 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%}%#"'
>

FWIW here's mine:
set prompt = "\n%~\n%t\n%d, %D `/bin/hostname -s`# "
Short and sweet. As you can see it leaves little doubt as to where I am or
what day and time it is.

-Chris

> 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.
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