Putting a Bell Character in the CSH Prompt
Martin McCormick
martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu
Tue Nov 16 12:31:19 PST 2004
I am not exactly a newby to FreeBSD, but this is certainly a
newby question in that I am not sure where to look for the answer.
I want the prompt string in the .cshrc file to contain a Bell
or ASCII 7 character. Normally, this is no problem. If one is using
the C-shell, a prompt string like
set prompt="\a\!# "
I am using a VT100 emulator and it can certainly receive
bells. If I type a CTRL-G on the keyboard, I hear a beep. It is only
when I receive the prompt string that it is not a bell but ^G.
If I use the bash shell, I get a bell.
What might be effecting the C-shell's output in this way?
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