Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:11:28 -0800
On 2/11/12 12:07 AM, Joel Dahl wrote:
> On 10-02-2012  9:03, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> Picking a random person to reply to.
>>
>> There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread, but can we please
>> remember a few things:
>>
>> - Users can always add their own ~/.cshrc
>> - Many users will get annoyed by what is someone else's amazing setup
> With the above in mind, I suggest we change as little as possible from what
> we have today (for now) and that we do improvements in small steps.
>
> I believe 99.99% of all users would find the change below to be a definite
> improvement over the current default values in .cshrc:
>

Put lots of stuff in there
and disable them by default


> Index: dot.cshrc
> ===================================================================
> --- dot.cshrc   (revision 231507)
> +++ dot.cshrc   (working copy)
> _at__at_ -24,8 +24,10 _at__at_
>          # An interactive shell -- set some stuff up
>          set prompt = "`/bin/hostname -s`# "
>          set filec
> -       set history = 100
> -       set savehist = 100
> +       set history = 1000
> +       set savehist = (1000 merge)
> +       set autolist
> +       set autoexpand
>          set mail = (/var/mail/$USER)
>          if ( $?tcsh ) then
>                  bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word
>
> Also, a comment pointing to /usr/share/examples/tcsh/complete.tcsh would
> be a nice addition to the default .cshrc.
>
Received on Sun Feb 12 2012 - 00:10:26 UTC

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