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Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: csh prompts
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Date: 24 Jun 88 13:34:00 GMT
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Written  6:32 pm  Jun 19, 1988 by psuvax1.UUCP!jl42+ in cpe:comp.sources.d
>MISTERDATA/afs/cs.cmu.edu/bsd4.3/ibm032/omega/usr/misc/.X11tra/lib/awm/bitmaps:(120) %
>
>Cute, huh? Oh well, I think its worth it, even if my prompt *does* exceed
>one screen width :-) (After all, that's what 132 column Xterm windows are
>for, right? hee hee)

Well, I was gonna stay out of this but I have my own solution to this.
Those long prompts are really obnoxious at lower baud rates.
Chances are you had a pretty good idea where you were, you just needed
a hint.  The last two components are probably sufficient.  My prompt
would only print

	awm/bitmaps:120

If you're interested here's mine:

	alias cd 'chdir \!*; set cwd=`pwd`;\\\
		set head=$cwd:h; set prompt="$head:t/$cwd:t:\! "'

I suppose if you wanted three components you could use (untested)

	alias cd 'chdir \!*; set cwd=`pwd`;\\\
		set head1=$cwd:h head2=$head1:h;\\\
		set prompt="$head2:t/$head1:t/$cwd:t:\! "'

P.S.	add "cd ." to the end of .cshrc to initialize it.  I can't decide
	if "pwd" should be "/bin/pwd" or not.  And yes, it behaves when
	your at / (at least the first one does).  Actually, my real
	prompt would print it in reverse video and replace the colon
	with a pound sign if I was root.  I don't like having to look
	hard to find my prompt. :-)

			Paul Chamberlain
			Computer Product Engineering, Tandy Corp.
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