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From: davis@en.ecn.purdue.edu (E Robert Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: tcsh
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.074832.13805@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 07:48:32 GMT
References: <1991Mar12.072203.12123@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Mar12.162045.10918@math.ucla.edu> <1991Mar14.051506.1851@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <1991Mar14.051506.1851@midway.uchicago.edu> paul@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Paul Burchard) writes:
>
>One of the tcsh features NeXT-csh doesn't support is a rich
>prompt---one of my favorites.  For example, I put the current
>directory (as well as my current host) into my prompt, which really helps
>when I'm jumping around directories and machines. (A command-line
>emulation of the Browser, if you like. :-)
>

     Actually, you can do this with csh.  Just put something like this
in you .cshrc:

     alias cd              'chdir \!* ; set prompt="[$cwd] "'  
     cd       ## note:  this sets initial prompt to $HOME

You could stick your host in there ($host) or the current command (for
reference with the history command) etc.

>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Paul Burchard	<burchard@math.utah.edu>
>``I'm still trying to learn how to count backwards from infinity...''
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Robert