From 93153525e850df5cf61579c5f3db19385f429879 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ADAM David Alan Martin <adam@recursive.engineer>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 00:30:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Prompt sigil update uses `shift`, instead of math

---
 tcshrc.prompt.final | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tcshrc.prompt.final b/tcshrc.prompt.final
index cb66420..3357705 100644
--- a/tcshrc.prompt.final
+++ b/tcshrc.prompt.final
@@ -62,45 +62,50 @@ _debug "Done with color cacheing loop"
 _debug "Dynamic color loading processed..."
 
 
-while( ${#reference_colors} == 0 )
+if( ${#reference_colors} == 0 ) then
 	_debug colorshuffle
     #echo 
     # Shuffle, if supported
     if( $?cshenv_detected_shuf ) then
+        _debug "PRIMARY COLOR!"
         set reference_colors=`shuf -e $reference_colors_original`
     else
-        #echo "FALLBACK COLOR!"
+        _debug "FALLBACK COLOR!"
         set reference_colors=`echo $reference_colors_original | tr " " "\n" | sort -R | xargs`
     endif
-    if( ! $?last_color ) then
-        break
-    endif
-    set first_color = ${reference_colors[1]}
-    if( ${first_color} == ${last_color} ) then
-		set reference_colors=()
-        continue
-    endif
-end
+    if( $?last_color ) then
+		set first_color = ${reference_colors[1]}
+		if( ${first_color} == ${last_color} ) then
+			_debug "COLLISION COLOR!"
+			# Instead of a reshuffle, we put the collision at the end.
+			set tmp_color="${reference_colors[1]}"
+			shift reference_colors
+			set reference_colors=( ${reference_colors} ${tmp_color} )
+		endif
+	endif
+endif
     
 
-while( ${#referencechars} == 0 )
+if( ${#referencechars} == 0 ) then
 	_debug symbolshuffle
     #echo 
     if( $?cshenv_detected_shuf ) then
+        _debug "PRIMARY CHAR!"
         set referencechars=`shuf -e $referencechars_original`
     else
-        #echo "FALLBACK CHAR!"
+        _debug "FALLBACK CHAR!"
         set referencechars=(`echo $referencechars_original | tr " " "\n" | sort -R | xargs`)
     endif
-    if( ! $?last_sym ) then
-        break
-    endif
-    set first_sym = ${referencechars[1]}
-    if( ${first_sym} == ${last_sym} ) then
-		set referencechars=()
-        continue
-    endif
-end
+    if( $?last_sym ) then
+		set first_sym = ${referencechars[1]}
+		if( ${first_sym} == ${last_sym} ) then
+			_debug "COLLISION CHAR!"
+			set tmp_char="${referencechars[1]}"
+			shift referencechars
+			set referencechars=( ${referencechars} ${tmp_char} )
+		endif
+	endif
+endif
 
 if( $?CSHENV_DEBUG ) then
     _debug ${reference_colors[1]} ${referencechars[1]}