Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-14 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Eitan Adler wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Astrodog wrote: Personally, I pay very little attention to the prompt. That being said... Plenty of people prefer widely different configurations for the prompt. I think everyone agrees that the default prompt isn't particularly informative, h

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-14 Thread Astrodog
... snip ... > if ($?prompt) then > # An interactive shell -- set some stuff up > - set prompt = "`/bin/hostname -s`# " > + set prompt = "[%n@%m]%c04%# " > + set promptchars = "%#" > > Many people had alternative suggestions for the prompt. Can you please > clarify why you

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-14 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/02/2012 17:25, Eitan Adler wrote: > setenv BLOCKSIZE K Why note BLOCKSIZE M? It's pretty much ridiculous to count kilobytes nowadays. > Many people had alternative suggestions for the prompt. Can you please > clarify why you believe your prompt should be the _default_ one? My promp

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-14 Thread Astrodog
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Astrodog wrote: >> Personally, I pay very little attention to the prompt. That being said... >> Plenty of people prefer widely different configurations for the prompt. >> I think everyone agrees that the defaul

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-14 Thread Eitan Adler
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Astrodog wrote: > Personally, I pay very little attention to the prompt. That being said... > Plenty of people prefer widely different configurations for the prompt. > I think everyone agrees that the default prompt isn't particularly > informative, however, achiev

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-14 Thread timp
My diff: +set autolist -setenv PAGER more +setenv PAGER less if ($?prompt) then # An interactive shell -- set some stuff up + set promptchars = '$#' + set prompt = "%{^[[50;73;1m%}\[`whoami`@%m %~\]%#%{^[[m%} " I think 'set autolist' must have everyone. PAGER is

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-13 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Chris Rees wrote: set prompt = "[%n@%m]%c04%# " it's not needed need some as alias ll ls -lAhG alias ls ls -G Lscolors are an abomination. -F or nothing at all is better; remember some people will use white xterms etc. Yeah, a +1 for me. Plain xterm with colorized output m

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-13 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Alex Keda wrote: On 10.02.2012 21:07, Chuck Burns wrote: set prompt = "[%n@%m]%c04%# " it's not needed need some as alias ll ls -lAhG alias ls ls -G set autolist = TAB bindkey "\e[3~" delete-char . and other _really_ necessary settings This can be as simple as defining CLICOLOR. Howe

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-12 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Chris Rees wrote: > > On 12 Feb 2012 17:11, "Chuck Swiger" wrote: >> >> On Feb 11, 2012, at 11:05 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: >> > Joel, with all due respect, do you really think that 99.9% of all >> > users will not find the _non_intrusive_ additions below useful? >

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-12 Thread Chris Rees
On 12 Feb 2012 18:22, "Chuck Swiger" wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > > So do I, but would these hurt you? > > At the present time, no. (At one point, I was using a keyboard > where the arrow keys generated "ESC-[ 1 ~" through "4", > IIRC, but I haven't been on console

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 12, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > So do I, but would these hurt you? At the present time, no. (At one point, I was using a keyboard where the arrow keys generated "ESC-[ 1 ~" through "4", IIRC, but I haven't been on console on it in some time.) > I think it's insane that by defaul

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-12 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 04:05:14AM -0300, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > Joel, with all due respect, do you really think that 99.9% of all > users will not find the _non_intrusive_ additions below useful? > bindkey "\e[1~" beginning-of-line #make Home key work; > bindkey "\e[2~" overwrite-mode #make Ins k

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-12 Thread Chris Rees
On 12 Feb 2012 17:11, "Chuck Swiger" wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2012, at 11:05 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > > Joel, with all due respect, do you really think that 99.9% of all > > users will not find the _non_intrusive_ additions below useful? > > > > bindkey "\e[1~" beginning-of-line #make Home key work

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2012, at 11:05 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > Joel, with all due respect, do you really think that 99.9% of all > users will not find the _non_intrusive_ additions below useful? > > bindkey "\e[1~" beginning-of-line #make Home key work; > bindkey "\e[2~" overwrite-mode #make Ins key work; >

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-12 Thread Matt Thyer
> How about adding stuff like this to /usr/share/examples/tcsh/complete.tcsh ? > > -- > Joel Yes to that. This is exactly where these suggestions should go. Feel free to create multiple examples files there but be very carefully with changes to system wide defaults. _

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-12 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Joel Dahl wrote: > On 10-02-2012  9:03, 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

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-12 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Joel Dahl wrote: > On 12-02-2012  4:05, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Joel Dahl wrote: >> > On 10-02-2012  9:03, Eitan Adler wrote: >> >> Picking a random person to reply to. >> >> >> >> There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-12 Thread Joel Dahl
On 12-02-2012 4:05, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Joel Dahl wrote: > > On 10-02-2012  9:03, 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: > >> > >>

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/11/12 12:07 AM, Joel Dahl wrote: On 10-02-2012 9:03, 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 som

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-11 Thread Joel Dahl
On 10-02-2012 9:03, 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

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Stephen McKay
On Friday, 10th February 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: >-alias la ls -a >+alias la ls -aF > alias lf ls -FA >-alias ll ls -lA >+alias ll ls -lAF >+alias ls ls -F > >Two people didn't like these changes but didn't explain why. This is >incredibly helpful, especially f

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 11/02/2012 00:29 Chuck Swiger said the following: > On Feb 10, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> I really hate the default behavior of less where you can't quit via ^C or via >> paging through the end of file. > > It's readily tunable, by setenv'ing LESS variable to contain some of: > >

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Oliver Pinter
On 2/10/12, Eitan Adler wrote: > In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) > there has been some discussion about changing the default cshrc file. > > I'd like to commit something like the following based on Chris's patch > at the end of the thread. This post is an attempt

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 10, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > I really hate the default behavior of less where you can't quit via ^C or via > paging through the end of file. It's readily tunable, by setenv'ing LESS variable to contain some of: -e or --quit-at-eof Causes less to automat

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
[cc list trimmed] on 10/02/2012 18:25 Eitan Adler said the following: [snip] > set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin > /usr/local/bin $HOME/bin) > > setenv EDITOR vi > -setenv PAGER more > +setenv PAGER less > setenv BLOCKSIZE K > No one complained ab

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 Feb 2012 19:41, "Alex Keda" wrote: > > On 10.02.2012 21:07, Chuck Burns wrote: >> >> set prompt = "[%n@%m]%c04%# " > > it's not needed > > need some as > alias ll ls -lAhG > alias ls ls -G Lscolors are an abomination. -F or nothing at all is better; remember some people wil

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Alex Keda
On 10.02.2012 21:07, Chuck Burns wrote: set prompt = "[%n@%m]%c04%# " it's not needed need some as alias ll ls -lAhG alias ls ls -G set autolist = TAB bindkey "\e[3~" delete-char and other _really_ necessary settings > complete chown 'p/1/u/' > complete man

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 10.02.2012 17:41, schrieb Gavin Atkinson: > On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 11:25 -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: >> Picking a random email to reply to. >> >> My goal with this email is to reduce the amount of "controversial" changes. > > I applaud this. I've often considered doing the same but avoided it > b

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Wojciech A. Koszek
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 05:53:09PM +0200, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > Eitan Adler wrote: > > set filec > > - set history = 100 > > - set savehist = 100 > > + set history = 1 > > + set savehist = 1 > > Just why not (1 merge)? > > > + set autolist > > + # Use history to

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Wojciech A. Koszek
On czw, lut 09, 2012 at 11:50:06 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > ` > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > >> In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) > > >> there has been some discussion about changing the defau

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Edho Arief
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > This change is disruptive, and it can affect use of ls(1) in scripts. Scripts never use alias and... > For example, it even sticks the extra characters in the output of > "ls -1" (the number 1), which is specifically designed to be used w

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Chuck Burns wrote: > On 2/10/2012 10:41 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 11:25 -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> >>> Picking a random email to reply to. >>> >>> My goal with this email is to reduce the amount of "controversial" >>> changes. >> >> I

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Chuck Burns
On 2/10/2012 10:41 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 11:25 -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: Picking a random email to reply to. My goal with this email is to reduce the amount of "controversial" changes. I applaud this. I've often considered doing the same but avoided it because it was

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 11:25 -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: > Picking a random email to reply to. > > My goal with this email is to reduce the amount of "controversial" changes. I applaud this. I've often considered doing the same but avoided it because it was easier than fighting the bikeshed :) > c

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Eitan Adler
Picking a random email to reply to. My goal with this email is to reduce the amount of "controversial" changes. 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

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Eitan Adler wrote: set filec - set history = 100 - set savehist = 100 + set history = 1 + set savehist = 1 Just why not (1 merge)? + set autolist + # Use history to aid expansion + set autoexpand set mail = (/var/mail/$USER

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Chris Rees
On 10 Feb 2012 14:58, "Erich Dollansky" wrote: > > 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 t

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 19:52 -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: > In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) > there has been some discussion about changing the default cshrc file. > > I'd like to commit something like the following based on Chris's patch > at the end of the thread.

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Joel Dahl wrote: [completion examples] How about adding stuff like this to /usr/share/examples/tcsh/complete.tcsh ? Along with a comment in .cshrc pointing to that file (or even a commented line to source it), it would be an improvement. People who can benefit the most

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
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 some

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 09:03:52AM -0500, 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 e

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Miroslav Lachman
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 The main problem of this is: nov

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Eitan Adler
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 The changes I proposed were designed to add value whil

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 10 February 2012 19:36:29 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> (from Fri, 10 Feb 2012 > 12:05:59 +0100): > > > I would like to share them with others, if there are interrest to > > include it in stock FreeBSD base. > > If there's no interest,

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> (from Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:05:59 +0100): I would like to share them with others, if there are interrest to include it in stock FreeBSD base. If there's no interest, or no consent to add a specific one, why not collect them in a wiki-page? Bye,

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Joel Dahl
On 09-02-2012 23:50, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > >> In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) > > >> there has been some discussion about changing the default cshrc file. > > I

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Friday 10 February 2012 18:05:59 Miroslav Lachman wrote: Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: I would like to share them with others, if there are interrest to include it in stock FreeBSD base. just publish them at least here. It will

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 10 February 2012 18:05:59 Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Warren Block wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > > > > I would like to share them with others, if there are interrest to > include it in stock FreeBSD base. > just publish them at least here. It will always be

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 10 February 2012 13:50:06 Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > >> In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) > > The question becomes "how much is too much?" For example,

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) there has been some discussion about changing the default cshrc file. In the same line that Wojciech on the P

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread sthaug
> If tcsh could be updated to version 6.18.00 "set autorehash" would be > really nice. With that you'll never have to type "rehash" again. :) Yes please! Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Yamagi Burmeister
On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 19:52:58 -0500 Eitan Adler wrote: > In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) > there has been some discussion about changing the default cshrc file. > > I'd like to commit something like the following based on Chris's patch > at the end of the thread.

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) > there has been some discussion about changing the default cshrc file. > > I'd like to commit something like the following based on Chris's patch > at the end of the thread. Th

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Joel Dahl
On 09-02-2012 19:52, Eitan Adler wrote: > In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) > there has been some discussion about changing the default cshrc file. > > I'd like to commit something like the following based on Chris's patch > at the end of the thread. This post is a

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-09 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) there has been some discussion about changing the default cshrc file. In the same line that Wojciech on the PR ".cshrc should be u

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-09 Thread Sergey V. Dyatko
On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 19:52:58 -0500 Eitan Adler wrote: > In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) > there has been some discussion about changing the default cshrc file. > > I'd like to commit something like the following based on Chris's patch > at the end of the thread.

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-09 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) > there has been some discussion about changing the default cshrc file. > > I'd like to commit something like the following based on Chris's patch > at the end of the thread. Thi

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-09 Thread Lawrence Stewart
On 02/10/12 11:52, Eitan Adler wrote: > In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) > there has been some discussion about changing the default cshrc file. > > I'd like to commit something like the following based on Chris's patch > at the end of the thread. This post is an

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
Do the promptchars work correctly on csh as well as tcsh? Adrian ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"