Subject: Re: Setting prompt...
To: Jude Giampaolo <jude@ruf2ece.ee.psu.edu>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/08/1998 11:50:17
Jude Giampaolo wrote:
> Chris Jewell carved on a block of stone:
> >
> > How do you set the prompt for the c-shell in the .cshrc to show your
> > current path. I tried what I thought would work but it doesn't.
>
> Here's what I use:
>
> set prompt="%m%~ %h%%> "
i believe the above only works with tcsh (which i'd recommend using over
standard csh). most solutions for tcsh look something like:
alias reprompt 'set prompt=`pwd`"%'
alias cd 'cd;reprompt'
i hope this helps some.
later.
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Colin Wood cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD Intel Corporation
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