[2832] in Athena Bugs
6.3B login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Aug 12 00:28:52 1989
From: <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 89 00:28:29 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
My home-directory is now AFS... This means that my home directory is
actually a symbolic link to AFS land. This means that /mit/probe is no
longer a directory... it is a symlink. It also means that the pathname
to my homedirectory is very long and when I have the path printed out in
my prompt, it is very large. A feature was added to "tcsh" to allow
globbing of this so that pathnames if they are based on a subdirectory
of my home-directory will appear as ~/directory... Unfortunately, it
bases the home directory on the $home variable, not the
fully-qualified-pathname for the home-directory.
In essence:
home=/mit/probe
real directory=/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/u/probe
So when I have a pathname in my prompt it appears like:
<cronos!probe> {/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/p/probe}
2%
This is huge and if I were a user, I would prefer to see it relative to
something I understand rather than the above gibberish. Something like:
<cronos!probe> {~/Mail}
9% cd
<cronos!probe> {~}
10%
would be much easier for a user to understand. I have a one line hack
in my .cshrc.mine that can easily be done in the global one...
set home=`cd;/bin/pwd`
This can easily be done during the environment setup as I don't believe
this has to be done on every invocation of the shell...
-Richard
