Re: Exporting $PS1.

2007-03-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ag. Hatzimanikas wrote: > Although I am rather new in linux-land , I can't really understand why the > vast majority of linux users still uses bash as their interactive shell. > Zsh is far superior in almost every aspect of interactivity. I don't know the reasons for sure, but let me give you the

Re: Exporting $PS1.

2007-03-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/14/07, Ag. Hatzimanikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I keep bash around because I want the shell scripts to be portable, and sh > emulation in zsh > still is not perfect. If that's the only reason, then why not install a shell who's only intention is to be POSIX compliant like dash or posh

Re: Exporting $PS1.

2007-03-14 Thread Ag. Hatzimanikas
On Wed, Mar 14, at 08:59 Wilco Beekhuizen wrote: > Thanks for the info! I solved the problem and bash was not the one to blame. > While writing this I noticed readline-5.1 was on my system. Updating > to 5.2 solved my problems! Happy. Rant: Although I am rather new in linux-land , I can't really

Re: Exporting $PS1.

2007-03-14 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2007/3/14, Ag. Hatzimanikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Mar 14, at 09:49 Wilco Beekhuizen wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion but I'm not using bash_completion. > > Fortunately I found the solution. In 6.28 of the LFS book > > "--with-installed-readline" is passed to the configure script. Witho

Re: Exporting $PS1.

2007-03-14 Thread Ag. Hatzimanikas
On Wed, Mar 14, at 09:49 Wilco Beekhuizen wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion but I'm not using bash_completion. > Fortunately I found the solution. In 6.28 of the LFS book > "--with-installed-readline" is passed to the configure script. Without > this switch, tab completion seems to work fine again

Re: Exporting $PS1.

2007-03-14 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
Thanks for the suggestion but I'm not using bash_completion. Fortunately I found the solution. In 6.28 of the LFS book "--with-installed-readline" is passed to the configure script. Without this switch, tab completion seems to work fine again. I haven't thoroughly tested this but this maybe some bu

Re: Exporting $PS1.

2007-03-13 Thread Ag. Hatzimanikas
On Tue, Mar 13, at 12:25 Wilco Beekhuizen wrote: > > $ ls /mnt/data/mp3/The\ Devil\'s\ Rejects\ -\ OST/ > > After that I can press tab all I want but nothing shows up. Just > pressing enter shows the directory listing but tab completion doesn't > work. This happens with only a few directories wit

Re: Exporting $PS1.

2007-03-12 Thread Ag. Hatzimanikas
A small correction to the second patch. Index: postlfs/config/profile.xml === --- postlfs/config/profile.xml (revision 6665) +++ postlfs/config/profile.xml (working copy) @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ export HISTSIZE=1000 export HISTIGNORE="

Re: Exporting $PS1.

2007-03-12 Thread Ag. Hatzimanikas
On Κυρ, Μάρ 11, at 01:32 Dan Nicholson wrote: > > I got the same problems when playing around with dash, but I'd never > given it much thought. I think this is a good point and I'm gonna > change all my shell setting files to not export PS1. > Exporting PS1 using bash