Hi Eitan,

On Friday 10 February 2012 21:03:52 Eitan Adler wrote:
> Picking a random person to reply to.
> 
> There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread, but can we please
> remember a few things:
> 
> - Users can always add their own ~/.cshrc
> - Many users will get annoyed by what is someone else's amazing setup

sorry for going a bit far off your route.
> 
> The changes I proposed were designed to add value while continuing to
> be non-annoying to the vast majority of users. I'd like feedback about
> the specific patch I proposed. We can also create a wiki page for
> more awesome tcsh examples.
> 
> For the record this is the current version of the patch I'd like to
> commit: Note that it slightly changed from the original (I removed the
> duplicate prompt setup and reorganized where the edits are made to
> make the diff look nicer).
> 
> commit 3ea4ea3a59d14cb060244618dd89d7dd0170bee1
> diff --git a/etc/root/dot.cshrc b/etc/root/dot.cshrc
> --- a/etc/root/dot.cshrc
> +++ b/etc/root/dot.cshrc
> @@ -7,9 +7,10 @@
> 
>  alias h              history 25
>  alias j              jobs -l
> -alias la     ls -a
> +alias la     ls -aF

ok, makes sense.

>  alias lf     ls -FA
> -alias ll     ls -lA
> +alias ll     ls -lAF
> +alias ls     ls -F
> 
ok, makes sense.

>  # A righteous umask
>  umask 22
> @@ -17,15 +18,19 @@ umask 22
>  set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin
> /usr/local/bin $HOME/bin)

I use the $HOME/bin on my machines but I am not so sure to make this a general 
thing.

> 
>  setenv       EDITOR  vi
> -setenv       PAGER   more
> +setenv       PAGER   less
>  setenv       BLOCKSIZE       K

ok, makes sense.

> 
>  if ($?prompt) then
>       # An interactive shell -- set some stuff up
> -     set prompt = "`/bin/hostname -s`# "
> +     set prompt = "[%n@%m]%c04%# "
> +     set promptchars = "%#"

I would add a

        set     ellipsis

here. It makes the prompt shorter when needed.

>       set filec
> -     set history = 100
> -     set savehist = 100
> +     set history = 10000
> +     set savehist = 10000
> +     set autolist
> +     # Use history to aid expansion
> +     set autoexpand
>       set mail = (/var/mail/$USER)
>       if ( $?tcsh ) then
>               bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word
> 
Ok again.

Erich
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Eitan Adler
> 
> 
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