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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: idea for tcsh
Message-ID: <6797@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 10:26:23 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6797
Posted: Sat Dec  5 10:26:23 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 06:02:51 EST
References: <147@csvaxa.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <147@csvaxa.UUCP> edward@csvaxa.UUCP (Edward Wilkinson) writes:
>I'm really impressed  with the latest  version of tcsh,  with spelling
>checking, emacs-style editing, etc. However, I've often wanted to save
>my  directory stack between  sessions,   as  currently  done with  the
>history list. Has anyone made any hacks to allow this?

I haven't been keeping track of tcsh, but unless it's really bogus
you shouldn't have any trouble doing what you ask in user mode,
without having to hack on the shell itself.  The way I would do this
would be to make my .logout file create a "dot file" in my home
directory containing the directory stack (which at least in my
Bourne shell environment is just the value of an environment
variable kept up to date by "cd", "pushd", etc.).  Then my .profile
(or perhaps my .shrc per-shell startup file) would, if this dot file
were present, use it to initialize the environment variable.

I leave the details as an exercise for the poor tcsh user.