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From: skeeve@hpb.cis.pitt.edu (John Huffman)
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Subject: Re: Can value of environmental var appear in prompt?
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In article <3406@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> creider@csd.uwo.ca (Chet Creider) writes:
>How can one make the value of an environmental variable appear in a
>C-shell prompt? While using screen, I often become confused as to which
>window I'm in. Screen maintains an environmental variable WINDOW giving
>the number of the current window. Can this value be put into a prompt?

Sure easy enough:

	set prompt=$WINDOW"->"

Of course you'll probably want to add more to the prompt, but that's the idea.

					       	- John Huffman