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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:34:51 +0530
From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc: djkanter@northwestern.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Setting shell prompt for C-shell
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John Baldwin said on Jul 20, 2000 at 21:38:22:
> 
> > and 
> > ~ >               (with tcsh on the same machine)
> 
> Try changing to a different directory, then read the manpage for tcsh. :)

Yes, sorry I wasn't very bright this morning.

> Basically, %~ is like %/, but it will use ~ for your home directory, and
> ~foo for foo's home directory instead of the actual path.  If you typically
> log into several machines, then a prompt such as "%B%n@%m%b:%~\n%# " can
> be useful.  It would render as follows:
> 
> john@john:~                                                                     >
> 
> but with the username and machine in bold.

Looks useful, thanks.

Rahul.


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