colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) (10/07/84)
["In other words, if I turn left, right is behind me. Is that correct?"] Around here we see a lot of prompts like Yes, Master? May I help you? NOW what?? Nobody pays much attention to them.... -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel
ag5@pucc-i (Henry C. Mensch) (10/09/84)
<<Yeah?>>
My favorite (seen on several student logins):
'Buzz off!'
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" . . You'd better smile when they watch you,
smile like you're in control. . ."
-- *Smile*, Was (Not Was)mff@wuphys.UUCP (Space Goat) (10/12/84)
Speaking of funny prompts, I have always wanted to write a shell script which would change the prompt every so often, while I'm logged on. The problem is that I can run a background process to change the shell variable PROMPT (I'm running csh), but the parent process (the shell that I'm talking to) doesn't know anything about that variable. Anyone have any ideas? Mark F. Flynn Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130 ihnp4!wuphys!mff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark." P. Floyd
cuccia@ucbvax.ARPA (Nick Cuccia) (10/13/84)
Some of us (UCB) here do really horrible things with our prompts. I have, in my .cshrc, the following: alias promp `set prompt=MachineName ($cwd) <\! > ` alias cd 'cd \!*; promp' and in my .login: promp This prints the full path, from the root, on UN*X systems. Some machines may not have the cwd variable, so you may need to add 'alias setcwd set cwd=`pwd`' to your .cshrc and insert setcwd ahead of promp in the cd alias above. On average my prompt length is about 25 chars, with its peak at close to 80. Have fun... --Nick Cuccia --ucbvax!cuccia
bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed) (10/17/84)
I have something similar to the prompt that includes cwd, but I couldn't stand the whole rooted path, so I have the following stuff: alias setprompt 'set prompt="^[[1;7m`hostname`^[[0m \\!:`echo $cwd | sed -f ~/.home.sed` % "' alias '>' 'pushd \!* && setprompt' alias '<' 'popd && setprompt' alias cd 'cd \!* && setprompt' where .home.sed is s:^/usr1/bobr/:: s:^/usr1/bobr$:: s:^/usr./:~: s:^/usr/spool/news:~news: s:^/usr/lib/local/emacs:~emacs: this has the effect of reducing any path below my home directory to just that partial path, and since all our of our user directories are of the form '/usr?/<name>', chdir to another user's home directory gives ~user/whatever. There's also some vt100 garbage so that the hostname is reversed and the resulting string is something like: zeus 17:Mail/inbox % -- Robert Reed, Tektronix Logic Design Systems Division, tektronix!teklds!bobr
adams@plx.UUCP (Robert Adams) (10/18/84)
Of funny prompts, I've always liked: Your wish is my control statement: -- ..!decvax!decwrl!sun!plx!adams -- Robert Adams
debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray) (10/20/84)
Try getting into joe_newuser's .cshrc and adding
set prompt='login: '
alias joe_newuser logout
The subsequent thrashing behaviour can be pretty funny!
--
Saumya Debray, SUNY at Stony Brook
uucp:
{cbosgd, decvax, ihnp4, mcvax, cmcl2}!philabs \
{amd, akgua, decwrl, utzoo}!allegra > !sbcs!debray
{tektronix, metheus}!ogcvax /
CSNet: debray%suny-sbcs@CSNet-Relaysjf@foxvax1.UUCP (S.J. Foley ) (10/23/84)
I at one time had this prompt |)-> -> -> ->. The arrows were followed by by several backspaces, which were then followed by several pairs of foward spaces and back spaces to give a delay effect. Finally the 4 more arrows followed. This gave the illusion of an arrow being shot across the screen. I kept this prompt until I could stand no more ridicule from my co-workers. -sf- -- adios -sf-
richard@sequent.UUCP (10/26/84)
>> Some of us (UCB) here do really horrible things with our prompts. >> I have, in my .cshrc, the following: >> >> alias promp `set prompt=MachineName ($cwd) <\! > ` >> alias cd 'cd \!*; promp' >> >> and in my .login: >> >> promp >> >> This prints the full path, from the root, on UN*X systems. >> Some machines may not have the cwd variable, so you may need >> to add 'alias setcwd set cwd=`pwd`' to your .cshrc and >> insert setcwd ahead of promp in the cd alias above. >> >> On average my prompt length is about 25 chars, with its peak at close >> to 80. Oh, you can have more fun than that. I use rlogin for concurrent logins on up to three machines from my home machine. So I don't get too confused, I want the machine name and path displayed all the time. I also use the csh history functions, so I want the history number displayed with each prompt. SO: setenv HOST `hostname` set prompt="$HOST(\!): <to stat>$cwd<back from stat>" alias cd 'chdir \!* ; set prompt="$HOST(\!): <to stat>$cwd<back from stat>"' alias pd 'pushd \!* ; set prompt="$HOST(\!): <to stat>$cwd<back from stat>"' alias po 'popd \!* ; set prompt="$HOST(\!): <to stat>$cwd<back from stat>"' The <to stat> is the escape sequence necc to start writing in the status line, and the <back from stat> returns to the current line. Note: If you only have one machine, you only need to print out the stat line when you chdir, pushd or popd. But popping back and forth between three background rlogins and my home machine, whenever I get a new prompt, voila. It takes a little longer to cd, but it was fun while my prompt slowly developed. Now I'm on a wyse75; the bottom status line runs a niced sysline, while the top status line has my current working directory. Happy hacking! ...!sequent!richard
avolio@grendel.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio) (10/26/84)
You can achieve similar results without the editing (sediting?) using
the command "dirs" to get the cwd.
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Fred Avolio, DEC -- U{LTR,N}IX Support
301/731-4100 x4227
UUCP: {seismo,decvax}!grendel!avolio
ARPA: grendel!avolio@seismo.ARPAkaufman@uiucdcs.UUCP (10/31/84)
After many hours of research :-) and inspiration from your prompts, I have come up with this one: set prompt='[======]----------------** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * \! ' Try it, you'll like it. Ken Kaufman (uiucdcs!kaufman) "Lord knows, we need more statesmen."
kaufman@uiucdcs.UUCP (10/31/84)
Oops, the control characters didn't come through. Try again. set prompt='[======]----------------*^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H ^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H ^H^H ^H^H ^H^H ^H^H ^H^H^H^H^H \! ' Ken Kaufman (uiucdcs!kaufman) "Lord knows, we need more statesmen".
rwl@uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky) (11/04/84)
> After many hours of research :-) and inspiration from your prompts, I have come > up with this one: > > set prompt='[======]----------------** * * * * > * * * * * * * * * * > * \! ' > > Try it, you'll like it. > > Ken Kaufman (uiucdcs!kaufman) > "Lord knows, we need more statesmen." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <*** FLAME ON ***> I was wondering what was so funny about this prompt until I started editing this flame and saw what you _intended_ send. What I received on my terminal was: set prompt='[======]----------* * \! ' which didn't make any sense so I tried it out. Definitely a dud. Then when your message came up in the editor I see this: > set prompt='[======]----------------*^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H > ^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* ^H^H^H* > ^H^H^H* ^H^H ^H^H ^H^H ^H^H ^H^H ^H^H^H^H^H \! ' where each ^H is a backspace. Maybe you still use hard-copy terminals where ever _you_ are but the rest of us have moved up to terminals and each of those literal backspaces where invisible! <*** FLAME OFF ***> Since we're on the topic of prompts (funny or otherwise), I was wondering if any C-shell hackers know of a way to make the shell execute an arbitrary program each time the prompt comes up. Right now I use a prompt that displays the current command number at the top right of the screen in reverse video, then places the usual '% ' prompt at the lower left hand corner (this is on an adm5 dumb terminal). I know about the standard method of aliasing commands (like cd and pushd/popd) to change the prompt, but I'd like to find a way to set the prompt so that 'date' is executed each time I get a prompt in the login shell. Any wizards out there that can take this one on? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ray Lubinsky University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science uucp: decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!rwl