Hello.  This doesn't really seem to fit into any of the other lists, so
please tell me if I should send it elsewhere...

NetBSD is great, but in my opinion the default shell setups aren't, erm,
spiffy enough  :)  So, I have created some login scripts to modify their
behavior.  Hopefully they will be found useful enough to make their way
into a future release.  They basically just set the prompt, xterm title
if $TERM==xterm*, and turn on a few useful features.  The best place for
them would be in /etc/skel I would think.  But, if they are put into the
/etc/profile and /etc/csh.login, some additional code should probably be
added to deal with uid root.

Here is .profile:

export HOSTNAME="`hostname`"
if [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/sh" ]; then
  PS1="$HOSTNAME$ "
  set -E                        # Emacs command edit mode, switch to -V
for vi
elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ksh" ]; then
  case $TERM in
    xterm*)
      PS1='^[]0;$HOSTNAME: $PWD^G! $HOSTNAME:$PWD$ '
      #PS1='^[]0;$HOSTNAME: ${PWD##${HOME}/}^G! $HOSTNAME:$PWD$ '
      ;;
    *)
      PS1='! $HOSTNAME:$PWD$ '
      #PS1='! $HOSTNAME:${PWD##${HOME}/}$ '
      ;;
  esac
  set -o emacs                  # emacs command edit mode
  bind '^I'=complete-list       # tab completion
elif [ "$SHELL" = "/usr/pkg/bin/bash" ]; then
  case $TERM in
    xterm*)
      PS1='\[\033]0;\h: \w\007\]\h:\w\$ '
      ;;
    *)
      PS1='\h:\w\$ '
      ;;
  esac
fi

And here is .login:

setenv HOSTNAME "`hostname`"
if ("$SHELL" == "/bin/csh") then
  switch ($TERM)
    case "xterm*":
      set prompt = "! $HOSTNAME% "
      alias cd 'cd \!*; echo -n "^[]0;${HOSTNAME}: ${cwd}^G"'
      breaksw
    default:
      set prompt = "! $HOSTNAME% "
      breaksw
  endsw
  set filec                     # turn on esc completion
  #set notify                   # personal preference, read man csh
  set history = 100             # turn on history and set length
else if ("$SHELL" == "/usr/pkg/bin/tcsh") then
  switch ($TERM)
    case "xterm*":
      set prompt = "%{\033]0;%m: %~\007%}! %m:%~%# "
      breaksw
    default:
      set prompt = "! %m:%~%# "
      breaksw
  endsw
  set autolist                  # generate lists for completion
  #set notify                   # personal preference, read man tcsh
  #set rmstar                   # prompt on rm *
endif


Note that for the csh and ksh xterm title setting lines, ^[ and ^G are
really the ESC and BEL characters respectively.  These can be entered in
emacs using C-q ESC and C-q C-g.  Both of these scripts were developed
under 1.4.2, but should have no porting problems.  I included the code
to configure tcsh and bash since those are (I would assume) the two
shells people are most likely to add to their systems.  I also have a
.rcrc for the plan9 rc shell if anyone's interested.  If many people are
using zsh these days, I could work something up for it too.

--

JohnM
john@icculus.net