wyle@ethz.UUCP (02/06/87)
What I really meant was NOT to add history, directory info, but
to have the machine say:
Yes, honey?_
and other such nothings after each command which I type. I use csh,
so it has to work in csh. My current solution is as follows:
In my .cshrc file I have the following commands:
. . .
alias promptchange 'set prompt="`hostname`[$cwd:t]< \! > `/usr/wyle/work/prompt/sp`"'
alias h 'history \!* | head -199 | more; promptchange'
alias 'clear; promptchange'
alias t 'more \!*; promptchange'
alias ls 'ls -F ; promptchange'
alias ls 'ls \!* ; promptchange'
alias vi 'vi \!* ; promptchange'
alias rm 'rm \!* ; promptchange'
alias make 'make \!* ; promptchange'
alias cp 'cp \!* ; promptchange'
...etc.
In other words, I alias most of my commonly used commands to invoke the
prompt change macro which sets my prompt to be:
<host> <directory> <history number> <cutsie saying>
The C program just selects a random prompt from a file, with the seed of
the random number generator the milliseconds from the time of day.
I have a rather large file of cutsie sayings to which friends add ideas
periodically.
If anyone wants the c source (20 lines) I'll post it. If anyone wants
the list of cutsie prompts, I'll post them in parts.
Please: If anyone has a better, cleaner solution, let me know!
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