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From: john@genrad.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: vi bug(feature?)
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Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 08:27:24 EDT
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In article <144@peregrine.UUCP> mike@peregrine.UUCP (Mike Wexler) writes:
>My standard shell is the /bin/csh.  When I try doing a any command
>with a name that needs to be shell expanded the editor calls the shell,
>but gets confused by the shell prompt and includes that in the file list.

This is an easily solved problem.  No doubt you have a "set prompt" line in
your .cshrc.  Simply replace it with the following:

if ($?prompt) then
	set prompt="whatever> "
endif

This will not set your prompt unless it was already set to SOMETHING
(i.e. you are interactive!)