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Both zsh and tcsh have an optional prompt at the right side of the screen. Unlike the normal left-side prompt, the cursor doesn't sit next to the right-side prompt (though the right prompt disappears if you type a long command line and the cursor passes over it). It's stored in the zsh RPROMPT variable and in tcsh rprompt.
What can you do with a right-hand prompt? Anything you want to! (You'll probably want to keep it fairly short, though.) Put the time of day on the right-hand side, for instance; on tcsh, it's this easy:
[jpeek@ruby ~]% set rprompt='%t' [jpeek@ruby ~]% users 3:44pm jpeek ollie [jpeek@ruby ~]% 3:45pm
As another idea, you could use sched to remind you of an important meeting by setting the right-hand prompt. Here's a shell function for zsh that sets the right prompt to "LEAVE NOW" at a particular time. You can give it one argument to set the time to remind you. Or, with no argument, it removes the right-hand prompt:
leave( ) {
case "$#" in
0) unset RPROMPT ;;
1) sched "$1" "RPROMPT='LEAVE NOW'" ;;
*) echo "Usage: leave [time]" 1>&2 ;;
esac
}Here's an example:
jpeek$ date Fri May 12 15:48:49 MST 2000 jpeek$ leave 15:55 ...do some work... jpeek$ pwd /u/jpeek/pt jpeek$ date LEAVE NOW Fri May 12 15:55:22 MST 2000 jpeek$ lpr report LEAVE NOW jpeek$ leave LEAVE NOW jpeek$
--JP and SJC
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