Enhancing the user experience with tcsh
Eitan Adler
lists at eitanadler.com
Fri Feb 10 00:53:30 UTC 2012
In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689)
there has been some discussion about changing the default cshrc file.
I'd like to commit something like the following based on Chris's patch
at the end of the thread. This post is an attempt to open the change
to wider discussion.
commit dbe6cb730686dd53af7d06cc9b69b60e6e55549c
diff --git a/etc/root/dot.cshrc b/etc/root/dot.cshrc
--- a/etc/root/dot.cshrc
+++ b/etc/root/dot.cshrc
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@
alias h history 25
alias j jobs -l
-alias la ls -a
+alias la ls -aF
alias lf ls -FA
-alias ll ls -lA
+alias ll ls -lAF
+alias ls ls -F
# A righteous umask
umask 22
@@ -17,19 +18,24 @@ umask 22
set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/bin $HOME/bin)
setenv EDITOR vi
-setenv PAGER more
+setenv PAGER less
setenv BLOCKSIZE K
if ($?prompt) then
# An interactive shell -- set some stuff up
set prompt = "`/bin/hostname -s`# "
set filec
- set history = 100
- set savehist = 100
+ set history = 10000
+ set savehist = 10000
+ set autolist
+ # Use history to aid expansion
+ set autoexpand
set mail = (/var/mail/$USER)
if ( $?tcsh ) then
bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word
bindkey -k up history-search-backward
bindkey -k down history-search-forward
endif
+ set prompt = "[%n@%m]%c04%# "
+ set promptchars = "%#"
endif
--
Eitan Adler
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