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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A blank line before the unix prompt?
Keywords: prompt
Message-ID: <1359@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 10 Aug 88 19:39:53 GMT
References: <3809@okstate.UUCP> <6591@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1236@ficc.UUCP>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <1236@ficc.UUCP> spenser@ficc.UUCP (spenser aden) writes:
\This is interesting, and I would like to do something similar on my XENIX 386
\machine, but I've got a problem.  I'd like to display the current directory
\on the firrst line, and the csh history counter on the second line at the 
\prompt.  Something like :
\
\/usr2/spenser/bin
\(15) _
\
\In order to do this, I have to alias 'cd'.  I've tried this (and a few 
\derivations of) in my .cshrc :  
\
\alias cd 'cd \!* ; set prompt="[=5h"`pwd`"[=5l \
\(\!) " '    # set prompt string

Try:

	alias	cd	'cd \!*; set prompt="<esc>[=5h`pwd`<esc>[=5l\\
	(\\!) "'

Notice: the newline and the second ! have to be escaped twice, once on setting
the alias and once on executing it.
BTW, it's a nice prompt indeed.
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