Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 22:23:31 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question Message-ID: <200001062123.WAA30393@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <851eoa$2itp$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
>
>> Hmm, no idea. I'm not a bash expert. Maybe it's a bug.
>> As a workaround, you can just write "#" in the first "PS1"
>> line, of course.
>
> No, because that has another meaning. It causes the prompt to show the
> history number of the command you've typed in.
Uhm, well, that's a bash-specific problem, can't help you
there, I'm afraid.
Zsh's prompt-syntax is very easy and consistent.
All "specials" begin with a "%" sign, and "%%" will give a
literal percent sign, that's all. For example, "%#" is
replaced with a "#" if the shell is running as root, and
with a "%" if not. My normal user $PROMPT is:
%n@%m:%4(~:...:)%3c>
which means:
<login name> "@" <machine name> ":"
<"..." if cwd has 4 or more components>
<max. 3 components of simplified cwd> "> "
For example:
olli@dorifer:~> cd /rootfs/usr/src
olli@dorifer:/rootfs/usr/src> cd sys/i386/conf
olli@dorifer:...sys/i386/conf> HERE=`pwd`
olli@dorifer:~HERE> cd conf
olli@dorifer:~HERE/conf>
When I'm root, it prints "root" in bold as login name, and
a bold "#" instead of the normal ">".
Just to give some ideas. :)
Regards
Oliver
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