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From: dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll)
Subject: Re: prompt question
Message-ID: <dfs.665954950@riker>
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Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
References: <1991Jan23.083259.16296@daimi.aau.dk> <51331@sequent.UUCP>
Date:  7 Feb 91 19:29:10 GMT

In <51331@sequent.UUCP> edw@sequent.UUCP (Ed Wright) writes:

>You can take that to a silly extreme

>alias cd 'cd \!* ;set prompt=`hostname`" "`whoami`" "`pwd`" {\!} "'

I have taken my prompt to an even SILLIER extreme (but I like it.)  Here's
an extract from my .cshrc:

	alias cd "cd \!*; prompt"
	alias chdir "cd \!*"
	alias popd "popd \!*; prompt"

	set effuser=`whoami`
	set host=`hostname`
	set tty=`tty`

	if ($effuser == "root") then
		set hash="#"
	else
		set hash="%"
		set path=($path .)
	endif

	alias prompt 'set prompt="--> $cwd <--\\
\\!: ${effuser}@${host}($tty:t)${hash} "'

This is what is looks like right now:

	--> /enterprise/transporter/dfs <--
	2: dfs@riker(ttyp4)% 
	                     |
	Cursor here ---------+

--
David F. Skoll.