Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Eitan Adler <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Astrodog <astrodog@xxxxxxxxx> 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, achieving consensus here is going to be almost
impossible. I suggest that it be handled as a seperate discussion,
perhaps?

That would result in even more of a bikeshed than this thread. I'm
pretty sure I'm going to go with one of the prompts posted to this
thread after a bit of experimentation.
Remember that the prompts are for inexperienced users and those of you
with awesome prompts are not the target audience for the change.

I'm not actually against any of the prompts that have been suggested.
They're all fine with me. I use too many shared machines, or use
machines temporarly to expect anything at all from the prompt anyway.


I am against this change, barring a more compelling reason to include
it. Default behavior limits $PATH to areas that are only writable as
root, and there is no garuntee that $HOME can only be written by the
user. As a result, the change may create unanticipated and unnoticed
security consequences some installations. I believe this outweighs the
functionality provided by the proposed change, given how trivial this
is to configure after the fact.

 set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/bin $HOME/bin)

is the default


Whoops. I should have known a couple of years ago that adding a
handful of random patches to my build machine wasn't a great idea.
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