gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner) (07/06/88)
Reading some of the recent postings to comp.sources.misc, there seems to be a **GREAT** demand for "csh prompt generators" of various kinds, with various preferences built in/out/around/etc. I don't know how other people on the net think about this flood of prompt generators, each with some very special bells and whistles; in my opinion, there are too many! Why don't people wanting sophisticated prompt just use shells like tcsh which allow you to do really fancy things to your prompts? --- Juergen "Gandalf" Wagner, gandalf@csli.stanford.edu Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford CA #include <disclaimers/vanilla.h> -- Juergen "Gandalf" Wagner, gandalf@csli.stanford.edu Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford CA
john@jclyde.UUCP (John B. Meaders Jr.) (07/06/88)
In article <4491@csli.STANFORD.EDU> gandalf@csli.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner) writes: > Why don't people wanting sophisticated prompt just use >shells like tcsh which allow you to do really fancy things to your prompts? Perhaps "people" don't have tcsh or they don't want to use it. There are people who enjoy using there own resources to affect a desired change. They then like to share their methods with the world. If you want to use tcsh, go ahead. Don't force people to use something you want them to use just because you are offended at seeing some novel ideas. If you want to gripe about bandwidth wasting, gripe about binary groups. Oh, also you need to fix your newsreader to append only one .signature and not two before you gripe about wasting bandwidth wastage again. :-) :-) -- John B. Meaders, Jr. 1114 Camino La Costa #3083, Austin, TX 78752 ATT: Voice: +1 (512) 451-5038 Data: +1 (512) 371-0550 UUCP: ...!uunet!utastro!bigtex!jclyde!john or john@jclyde.UUCP
" Maynard) (07/06/88)
In article <4491@csli.STANFORD.EDU> gandalf@csli.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner) writes: >Why don't people wanting sophisticated prompt just use >shells like tcsh which allow you to do really fancy things to your prompts? Because not everyone has access to the source of csh, which tcsh needs. For that matter, not everyone has access to anything but plain vanilla sh or csh. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC...>splut!< | Never ascribe to malice that which can uucp: uunet!nuchat! | adequately be explained by stupidity. hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- {killer,bellcore}!tness1! | Birthright Party '88: let's get spaced!
allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) (07/13/88)
As quoted from <4491@csli.STANFORD.EDU> by gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner): +--------------- | I don't know how other people on the net think about this flood of prompt | generators, each with some very special bells and whistles; in my opinion, | there are too many! Why don't people wanting sophisticated prompt just use | shells like tcsh which allow you to do really fancy things to your prompts? +--------------- You ship me a BSD (and System V) source license and csh/tcsh sources, and I'll run them. Otherwise, the majority of prompt generators I've received so far can be run on the csh that came with our System III system. Note that not even all BSD sites have source. -- Brandon S. Allbery, uunet!marque!ncoast!allbery DELPHI: ALLBERY For comp.sources.misc send mail to ncoast!sources-misc