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In article <1992Apr7.072725.6379@nextdoor.com>
john@nextdoor.com (John McCracken) writes:

>I use /bin/csh as the default shell, and here's what I have
>in my .login file:

>This yields a prompt like:

>	nextdoor [/john/Library]-3% 

>where "nextdoor" is the host, "/john/Library" is the current
>working directory, and "3" is the command number.

Bearing in mind that this prompt business is (periodically)
a topic more appropriate to comp.unix.questions, here's
another variant:

	alias cd 'cd \!*; doprompt'
	alias doprompt 'set prompt="[`hostname`:`whoami`]`dirs|sed -e
'\''s/ //'\'' -e 's.~..' -e 's./..'`[\\!] "'

where the doprompt alias is all one line and .cshrc ends with
a doprompt command.  A sample result is:

	[yak:anderson]Network/Wiscnet/Statistics/Data/RawData[43] 

Where I really am at this point is:

	/Users/anderson/Network/Wiscnet/Statistics/Data/RawData

One of these days I'll get around to refining this a little, so
as to shorten the prompt by replacing the middle of the path
with an ellipsis ...   like this:

	[yak:anderson]Network/.../RawData[43] 

A further improvement would be to show the front end of the
path when I'm not in my home directory:

	[yak:anderson]/NextApps/Installer.app[49]

rather than

	[yak:anderson]NextApps/Installer.app[49]

Having both the nostname and the login name is useful to me
because (being a network person), I'm usually on three or
four machines simultaneously (they have similar prompt
settings [just sort-of in the case of the VMS critters]),
and I'm sometimes also running as some other user (notably
root).  root's .cshrc adds the usual # in the prompt string
as an *extra* reminder (I'm not bright, though I am
persistent, so I can use more than one reminder :-).

Playing with these things can be a *major* antiproductivity
tool, though nothing I've run into beats Fractint in that
regard.

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