Can value of environmental var appear in prompt?

John Huffman skeeve at hpb.cis.pitt.edu
Wed Jun 19 01:02:27 AEST 1991


In article <3406 at ria.ccs.uwo.ca> creider at csd.uwo.ca (Chet Creider) writes:
>How can one make the value of an environmental variable appear in a
>C-shell prompt? While using screen, I often become confused as to which
>window I'm in. Screen maintains an environmental variable WINDOW giving
>the number of the current window. Can this value be put into a prompt?

Sure easy enough:

	set prompt=$WINDOW"->"

Of course you'll probably want to add more to the prompt, but that's the idea.

					       	- John Huffman



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