Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!dheller From: dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: csh prompts Keywords: Long prompts Message-ID: <4052@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Date: 23 Jun 88 09:15:52 GMT References:Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu Reply-To: dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Dan Heller) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 In article jl42+@psuvax1.UUCP (Jay Mathew Libove) writes: >that directory gives me this path for example: > >MISTERDATA/afs/cs.cmu.edu/bsd4.3/ibm032/omega/usr/misc/.X11tra/lib/awm/bitmaps:(120) % > >Cute, huh? Oh well, I think its worth it, even if my prompt *does* exceed >one screen width :-) (After all, that's what 132 column Xterm windows are >for, right? hee hee) I hate long prompts -- I usually know where I am when I set my prompt to the current directory and the one above: alias cd 'chdir \!* ; set cwdh = $cwd:h ; set prompt = "[$cwdh:r/$cwd:r] % "' Therefore, your prompt would look like: [awm/bitmaps] % Dan Heller