10617 – can't set prompt in tcsh

can't set prompt in tcsh

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RESOLVED: INVALID

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Medium

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normal

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Xfce4-terminal

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Description Dave Roberts 2014-01-09 22:23:50 CET

I run tcsh on arch linux with xfce.  I cannot set the prompt to anything other than ">"   I have tried setting the environment variable directly, and tried sourcing .tcshrc at the prompt.  I know xfce4-terminal is reading my .tcshrc because aliases work, but nothing I try will set the prompt.

setenv PROMPT '%n@%m:%c% '

xfce4-terminal 0.6.3

Comment 1 Gregory Margo 2014-01-16 04:51:10 CET

tcsh sets the command prompt from a shell variable named 'prompt'.
Try this in your .tcshrc:

set prompt='%n@%m:%c%% '

Comment 2 Dave Roberts 2014-02-03 00:32:03 CET

(In reply to Gregory Margo from comment #1)
> tcsh sets the command prompt from a shell variable named 'prompt'.
> Try this in your .tcshrc:
> 
> set prompt='%n@%m:%c%% '

Sorry, this was answered by Gregory long ago off-list, and I didn't realize it had posted.  His suggestion works great.

Comment 3 Igor editbugs

2016-08-17 11:45:34 CEST

Closing.

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Bug #10617

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