diff --git a/startup_hooks/tcshrc b/startup_hooks/tcshrc
index 5e871f1..f3735c8 100644
--- a/startup_hooks/tcshrc
+++ b/startup_hooks/tcshrc
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ if( $?CSHENV_DEBUG ) then
     echo "Set (in tcshrc hook) CSHENV_DIR to: " ${CSHENV_DIR}
 endif
 
+alias _debug 'eval "if ( $?CSHENV_DEBUG ) echo \!*"'
+
 setenv LC_NUMERIC en_US.UTF-8
 setenv LC_MEASUREMENT en_US.UTF-8
 setenv LC_MONETARY en_US.UTF-8