vi bug(feature?)

Peter da Silva peter at graffiti.UUCP
Mon Sep 2 23:13:02 AEST 1985


> Reason 8491 why I hate csh(1):
> The solution is to fix csh(1) so that it does not print the
> prompt string on non-interactive shells.  I have fixed my csh(1)
> to do just that.

No need to do this, just don't set the prompt string in your .cshrc, since
CSH doesn't set the prompt string on non-interactive shells. In your
.cshrc you can tell if the shell is interactive or not and act as follows:

if ( $?prompt ) then
	set prompt=...
	blah blah blah
endif



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