On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > > # and $ are standard/expected prompts. if you want something different, > > customise it yourself. > He's right!!!! Debian should provide a nicer default for the prompt. Many > people take this things into account when deciding which distribution they > like best.
If someone is going to evaluate an entire distribution on a prompt (even if there are other factors), I'm not going to be upset if they don't choose Debian. Perhaps we could/should point people towards how to change it, but I see NO reason to depart from the standard. If we did decide to provide a fancy prompt, I'd bet the ensuing chatter about what it should be would create more traffic than the regular noise about dselect's supposedly impossible interface. > > I like my own prompt of `PS1=(\h-\u) [\t] \w\$ ` (looks like: > > "(siva-cas) [12:14:32] ~$ ") but I wouldnt force everyone else to use > > it...it takes me 5 seconds on every new debian machine i build to edit > > ~/.bashrc as needed. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/doc/fvwm2$ _ > newton:/usr/doc/fvwm2$ _ But, for those of you looking for custom prompts, here's mine (I use tcsh, mileage using bash fuel may vary): set prompt = " --> %d %T on %m : pwd is %~ \ tcsh%# " which produces the following two line prompt, always ready at position 6: --> Tue 21:17 on templinux : pwd is ~/files/personal tcsh> --Pete _______________________________________________________________ Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer & Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
