Why csh on Root?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-10-19 11:48, Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
> RW writes:
> > There is an alternative uid 0 user called toor which you can use if you 
> > want
> > to use bash as root. OTOH hand there is a school of thought that you
> > shouldn't be too comfortable as root.
> 
> 	My thanks to all.  On all the systems in question, bash
> ends up on the same partition as root, but the points are
> well-taken.
> 
> 	One thing I was trying to accomplish is to have a bell in
> the  root prompt.  In the .cshrc file is a string 
> 
> set prompt="\007\!# "
> 
> 	I have also tried replacing the \007 with the actual
> Control-G and even a \a.  All produce an attempt to render a bell
> but what is sent to the remote terminal is ^G1#
> as in the actual ASCII characters ^ and G.
> 
> I am not sure what to do to correct this problem as I do not get
> it in bash.  A \a or \007 is sent literally.

This is easy to do with tcsh:

    set prompt = '%{^G%}%n@%m:%/%# '

Note the %{ ... %} around the literal ^G character :)