> '=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= wrote:' > > So I say: PS1="[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ " !!!! =D On May 21, Chris Fearnley wrote > No, PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' !!!!! > > I guess this will become a flame war. So I'd prefer to leave prompt > alone. Or maybe the boot disks can have a dialog script to help the > user choose a prompt?
I'd prefer PS1='\$ ' However, if you want all that fanciness, a compromise is: PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W\$ ' This doesn't eat up your screen when you're way down in the directory tree (you even still wind up using pwd occasionally). Also, I think the space makes the prompt look better than the : But, please remember to consider users of ash, ksh and zsh. -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
