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In article <basiji.702614445@milton> basiji@milton.u.washington.edu (David  
Basiji) writes:
> 
> The subject pretty much says it all.  I really miss this from my life
> in the DOS world.  How do I modify my .cshrc or .login to make this 
> happen?  
>

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

	set myhost=`hostname`
	alias SetPrompt 'set prompt="${myhost} [$cwd]-\\!% "'
	alias cd        'cd \!* && SetPrompt'
	alias cdl       'cd \!*; ls'
	cd

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.  The "cd" command has been modified to update
the prompt whenever I change directories, and "cdl" changes directories and
gives a listing of the new directory's contents.

-- 
 John McCracken
 john@nextdoor.com

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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In article <1992Apr7.120605.26841@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>
>In article <1992Apr7.072725.6379@nextdoor.com>
>john@nextdoor.com (John McCracken) writes:
>
>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./..'`[\\!] "'
>

That's disgusting.  Why do people think firing up sed with line noise
for arguments every time you change your working directory is elegant?
"Many small tools..."  "Thousand points of light..."

You also have to alias pushd and popd.

Another solution to this problem is to use tcsh or bash which both let
you put the working directory in the prompt by saying something simple
like (this works for bash)

	PS1="\h \w : "

"\h" is replaced with the host name.  "\w" is replaced with the
working directory.  This gives the following prompt:

MC8 ~/News : 

It also updates it automatically when the working directory changes.
 
-- 
Chris Maeda, Grad Student and RetroGrouch <cmaeda@cs.cmu.edu>
"A unix signature isn't a return address, it's the ASCII equivalent of
a black velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of carets surrounding
a quote from a literary giant of weeniedom like Heinlein or Dr. Who."

In article <1992Apr07.145433.53171@cs.cmu.edu>
cmaeda+@cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Maeda) writes:
>In article <1992Apr7.120605.26841@macc.wisc.edu>
>anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>>
>>In article <1992Apr7.072725.6379@nextdoor.com>
>>john@nextdoor.com (John McCracken) writes:
>>
>>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./..'`[\\!] "'
>
>That's disgusting.  Why do people think firing up sed with line
>noise for arguments every time you change your working directory
>is elegant? "Many small tools..."  "Thousand points of light..."
>
>You also have to alias pushd and popd.

I would say, rather, that it's an interesting use of the tools at
hand.  But, it is still futile, because there are better tools out
there availiable for _free_.

>Another solution to this problem is to use tcsh or bash which both let
>you put the working directory in the prompt by saying something simple

If you don't have a decent shell program _go_get_one_ (This post
contains a subliminal message, you can't help it, you are now being
forced to use archie and find it ...).

tcsh has _excellent_ facilities for setting up decent prompts.  In
fact, that's the reason why I haven't changed shells, even though
there are a couple out there that are still tempting (esp. the rc
shell - rc is _fast_, when I was running it on a trial basis, the
shell was ready when the Stuart window was, instead of having to
wait a couple seconds).  For instance, from the end of my .cshrc
(run under tcsh):

set prompt="%m:%C2%#%{^[]0;%m@%/ (%l)^G%} "

This little line sets my prompt to the section of the hostname
before the first '.' character (so, on holstein.bovine.gov, that
would be holstein alone), followed by a ':' character, followed by
the last two segments of the pathname (in directory /Users/scott/Work
this would be scott/Work, while in /Users/scott, this would be
/Users/scott) followed by '>' for regular accounts and '#' for root
accounts, followed by ' ' at the end.

Well, there's a sequence in there that bears elaboration.
"%{^[]0;%m@%/ (%l)^G%}" also sends an escape sequence to Stuart
that sets this window's titlebar to the first part of the hostname
followed by '@' followed by the pathname followed by the tty port
in parenthesis.  Of course, that section will not work on the Stuart
that most of you have - it's sort of an in-development thing.  But,
I just had to include that to demonstrate that tcsh allows for very
potent prompts.

tcsh-6.01 is AT&T _free_.  It's basically under the Berkeley
CopyMiddle license, which means that it really is free.  I don't
remember it taking much to compile, and a number of people I know
have asked me how to compile it and answered their own question
before I got back to them.  Sorry I can't tell you where to get it
from - use archie to find out.  On an Internetworked Unix box, run:

rlogin quiche.cs.mcgill.ca -l archie

And you are in.  Else, you can telnet to quiche and enter the archie
username directly.  There's help on the system.  Else, get NeXTArchie
from the archives :-).

Later,
--
scott hess <scott@gac.edu>   <A GUI is to a command-line as a TV is to a book>
12901 Upton Avenue South, #326  Burnsville, MN  55337  (612) 895-1208 Anytime!

In article <1992Apr07.145433.53171@cs.cmu.edu>
cmaeda+@cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Maeda) writes:

>In article <1992Apr7.120605.26841@macc.wisc.edu>
>anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

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

>That's disgusting.  Why do people think firing up sed with
>line noise for arguments every time you change your working
>directory is elegant?  "Many small tools..." "Thousand
>points of light..."

Well, now that you mention it, you *do* sound a little like
George Bush.  But I'm a forgiving kind of guy, and I'm using
the shell I'm using, so you be forgiving too and we'll have
our separate ways.

>You also have to alias pushd and popd.

Did that, thought it was obvious.  So what?

>-- Chris Maeda, Grad Student and RetroGrouch

Not to worry, it's a sorry state that doesn't last forever
(believe me, I was in college for 15 years!).

-- 
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