Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

[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 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
 alias lf	ls -FA
-alias ll	ls -lA
+alias ll	ls -lAF
+alias ls	ls -F

 # 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)

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

 if ($?prompt) then
 	# An interactive shell -- set some stuff up
-	set prompt = "`/bin/hostname -s`# "
+	set prompt = "[%n@%m]%c04%# "
+	set promptchars = "%#"
 	set filec
-	set history = 100
-	set savehist = 100
+	set history = 10000
+	set savehist = 10000
+	set autolist
+	# Use history to aid expansion
+	set autoexpand
 	set mail = (/var/mail/$USER)
 	if ( $?tcsh ) then
 		bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word




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Eitan Adler