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Current directory in prompt

#1007
From: Anders Ellefsrud
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1989 18:14
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Following is a small hack to substitute ~ for $HOME in the prompt string.
I use \~ (instead of \w) for this effect.


						anders@ifi.uio.no


*** parse.y.orig	Mon Jun 12 19:00:48 1989
--- parse.y	Mon Jun 12 19:40:04 1989
***************
*** 1370,1375 ****
--- 1370,1376 ----
  	\n	CRLF
  	\s	the name of the shell
  	\w	the current working directory
+ 	\~	the current working directory with ~ substituted for $HOME
  	\u	your username
  	\h	the hostname
  	\#	the command number of this command
***************
*** 1456,1461 ****
--- 1457,1463 ----
  	}
  	
        case 'w':
+       case '~':
  	{
  	  /* We would like to use the value of $PWD, but it turns out that
  	     this could be a bad idea because the user could set PWD to
***************
*** 1477,1482 ****
--- 1479,1495 ----
  	  temp = (char *)xmalloc (MAXPATHLEN);
  	  getwd (temp);
  #endif /* EFFICIENT */
+ 
+ 	  if (c == '~') {
+ 		  int idx;
+ 		  if (t_string = get_string_value ("HOME")) {
+ 			  idx = strlen(t_string);
+ 			  if (idx > 1 && strncmp(temp, t_string, idx) == 0) {
+ 				  temp[0] = '~';
+ 				  strcpy( temp + 1, temp + idx);
+ 			  }
+ 		  }
+ 	  }
  	  goto add_string;
  	}
        
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From: anders@IFI.UIO.NO (Anders Ellefsrud)
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Subject: Current directory in prompt
Message-ID: <CMM.0.88.613678264.anders@horn.uio.no>
Date: 12 Jun 89 18:14:23 GMT
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