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From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.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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