-=> Quoting Andy McArdle to Greg Kerr <=-

Hi Andy (& Greg),

GK>>> Prompt "*`date*`*nCLI:%N RC:%R CD:%S-> "

FWIW, here's my regular prompt alias:

 alias pr Prompt "*e[33mRC=%R*n*e[32m%S*n%N*e[37m[]>*e[31m"

AM>> Funnily enough, it appears to be only the "date" cmd that needs
AM>> the "`"s to be escaped like this.  :\

GK> I gathered that..  luckily I only need the date command :-)

For a while I was using a prompt with rx "say time()" in it, but I
can't remember the exact format off hand.

AM> I've had a bit of an experiment and found others that also
AM> *need* escaping...  such as 'list'

AM> Also any cmd that outputs multiple lines of text should be
AM> escaped, else it only displays the first few chars of the first
AM> line, until the prompt length = 80 chars.

Here are a few of my favourite "`" aliases:

 alias res resident *`which []*`
 alias ls list *`which []*`
 alias st status full
 alias kill rx "shell;z='*`st com []*`';do until z='';
	parse VAR z n z;c='break' n;say c;c;end"

I also have to mention this little gem:

 alias files rx "shell;f=showdir('','F');do while f~='';
	parse VAR f n f;[] n;end"

AM>> Weird!  :\

GK> That it is!

It's not really that weird, just a symptom of the way AmigaDOS
tokenizes, I guess.  I've spent hours stuffing around with * and `
trying to get obscure aliases & prompt strings working.

AM> What's weirder is someone elses discovery.  They loaded CShell
AM> from the std Shell, then staying in the *std* shell they tried
AM> it again and it worked properly!!

GK>>> nqiregvfref

AM>>             ^^^^ Gurl arrq n fhoyvzvany qvpgvbanel!  O:-)

GK> be ng yrnfg n fcryy purpxre 

AM> N fcryy purpxre pncnoyr bs unaqyvat EBG?  Abj gung'f na vqrn!

N cvrpr bs pnxr, hfvat zl ErkkFcryy yvoenel! :)

FWIW, here's a little patch that automatically ROT13s text as it's
rendered.  :)

ROTPatch by Michael Stapleton of Graphic Bits. Public Domain.
CLI only!

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Michael Stapleton of Graphic Bits.

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