Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

[Chris Rees]

On 10 Feb 2012 14:58, "Erich Dollansky" <erichfreebsdlist at ovitrap.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi Eitan,
>
> On Friday 10 February 2012 21:03:52 Eitan Adler wrote:
> > Picking a random person to reply to.
> >
> > There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread, but can we please
> > remember a few things:
> >
> > - Users can always add their own ~/.cshrc
> > - Many users will get annoyed by what is someone else's amazing setup
>
> sorry for going a bit far off your route.
> >
> > The changes I proposed were designed to add value while continuing to
> > be non-annoying to the vast majority of users. I'd like feedback about
> > the specific patch I proposed. We can also create a wiki page for
> > more awesome tcsh examples.
> >
> > For the record this is the current version of the patch I'd like to
> > commit: Note that it slightly changed from the original (I removed the
> > duplicate prompt setup and reorganized where the edits are made to
> > make the diff look nicer).
> >
> > commit 3ea4ea3a59d14cb060244618dd89d7dd0170bee1
> > 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
>
> ok, makes sense.
>
> >  alias lf     ls -FA
> > -alias ll     ls -lA
> > +alias ll     ls -lAF
> > +alias ls     ls -F
> >
> ok, makes sense.
>
> >  # A righteous umask
> >  umask 22
> > @@ -17,15 +18,19 @@ umask 22
> >  set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin
> > /usr/local/bin $HOME/bin)
>
> I use the $HOME/bin on my machines but I am not so sure to make this a
general thing.
>
> >
> >  setenv       EDITOR  vi
> > -setenv       PAGER   more
> > +setenv       PAGER   less
> >  setenv       BLOCKSIZE       K
>
> ok, makes sense.
>
> >
> >  if ($?prompt) then
> >       # An interactive shell -- set some stuff up
> > -     set prompt = "`/bin/hostname -s`# "
> > +     set prompt = "[%n@%m]%c04%# "
> > +     set promptchars = "%#"
>
> I would add a
>
>        set     ellipsis
>
> here. It makes the prompt shorter when needed.
>

Hence the %c04 modification to the path :)

Chris