Chris Jewell wrote:
> This doesn't help me with the cshrc file.  What is my solution?
> 
> On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> > 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:

sorry, that should have read:  "most solutions for csh look something
like:"

in other words, the section below is almost the correct solution.  here's
the better one:

alias reprompt      'set prompt=`echo $cwd`"% "'
alias cd    'cd \!*; reprompt'

 
> > alias reprompt	'set prompt=`pwd`"%"'
> > alias cd 	'cd;reprompt'
> > 
> > i hope this helps some.
> > 
> > later.
> > 

later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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