Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy
From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: tcsh
Message-ID: <HARDY.91Mar14000125@golem.ps.uci.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 08:01:00 GMT
References: <1991Mar12.072203.12123@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
	<1991Mar12.162045.10918@math.ucla.edu>
	<1991Mar14.051506.1851@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: U.C.Irvine, Dept. of Physics
Lines: 38
Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu
In-reply-to: paul@zaphod.uchicago.edu's message of 14 Mar 91 05:15:06 GMT

The prompt can be fixed: here are the appropriate lines in .cshrc
# make the prompt palatable
if( ${?prompt} ) then
        set host=`hostname`
        set prompt='`whoami`@`hostname`%${cwd}\[!\]\ '

### chdir and prompts
         alias cd chdir \!:\* \; \
             set prompt='`whoami`@`hostname`%${cwd}\[!\]\ ' \; \
             setenv CWD '$cwd'
         alias pd pushd \!:\* \; \
             set prompt='`whoami`@`hostname`%${cwd}\[!\]\ ' \; \
             setenv CWD '$cwd'
         alias pp popd \!:\* \; \
             set prompt='`whoami`@`hostname`%${cwd}\[!\]\ ' \; \
             setenv CWD '$cwd'
         cd .
set editmode=emacs
------
This is not quite as good as a tcsh prompt, but, unless you are in 
hardy@weyl%/NextLibrary/TeX/tex/formats[60] 
it is reasonable.
What i am really missing in the NeXT csh is the spell-checking 
tcsh has (on my good old HP-Bobcat). Here is an example:
-----
hardy@golem{users/hardy}[52>more .csherc
CORRECT>more .cshrc (y/n)? no
.csherc: No such file or directory
hardy@golem{users/hardy}[53>
-----
To say nothing of the "at" facility, and other goodies,
so sooner or later I am going to get tcsh.


Hardy 
			  -------****-------
Meinhard E. Mayer (Prof.) Department of Physics, University of California
Irvine CA 92717;(714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET