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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:00:44 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org>
To:        Christophe Jelger <eejelgec@swan.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Prompt and text editor
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101221059030.59114-100000@www.bellnetworks.net>
In-Reply-To: <3A6C570C.A40B3D4F@swan.ac.uk>

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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Christophe Jelger wrote:

> First a very stupid question : is there a way to have the shell prompt
> in BOLD in an xterm window ?

Here is my prompt in tcsh (.tcshrc)

set prompt="%B%n@%m (%l) %h %/ %#%b "
set prompt2="%B%n@%m %h %/ ++%b "

And in bash (.bashrc)

BLUE="\[\033[1;34m\]"
NO_COLOR="\[\033[0m\]"

PS1="${BLUE}\u@\h ('tty') \w \# ->${NO_COLOR} "
PS2="${BLUE}\u@\h \w \! ++${NO_COLOR} "

> And secondly, what simple text editor (like the notepad for Windows)
> would you advise me to use with the windowmaker desktop ? I just want to
> use it to edit C source files.
> 

vim works well.


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