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Date:      Sun, 6 Jan 2019 12:06:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
Cc:        Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r342812 - head/share/skel
Message-ID:  <201901062006.x06K6iEQ094887@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <201901061649.x06GnsJK017236@slippy.cwsent.com>

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> In message <201901061623.x06GNS1w057147@repo.freebsd.org>, Edward 
> Tomasz Napier
> ala writes:
> > Author: trasz
> > Date: Sun Jan  6 16:23:28 2019
> > New Revision: 342812
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/342812
> >
> > Log:
> >   Give sh(1) a proper default prompt instead of just "$".
> >   
> >   Reviewed by:	jilles
> >   MFC after:	2 weeks
> >   Relnotes:	totally
> >   Sponsored by:	DARPA, AFRL
> >   Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18697
> >
> > Modified:
> >   head/share/skel/dot.shrc
> >
> > Modified: head/share/skel/dot.shrc
> > =============================================================================
> > =
> > --- head/share/skel/dot.shrc	Sun Jan  6 05:07:52 2019	(r342811)
> > +++ head/share/skel/dot.shrc	Sun Jan  6 16:23:28 2019	(r342812)
> > @@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ alias g='egrep -i'
> >  # alias rm='rm -i'
> >  
> >  
> > -# # set prompt: ``username@hostname:directory $ '' 
> > -# PS1="`whoami`@\h:\w \\$ "
> > +# set prompt: ``username@hostname:directory $ '' 
> > +PS1="`whoami`@\h:\w \\$ "
> >  
> >  # search path for cd(1)
> >  # CDPATH=:$HOME
> >
> 
> Hmmm. At $JOB the RHEL servers use this prompt. IMO the prompt is 
> unwieldy and distracting. Instead of \w could we use \W instead?

Or you just could leave 30 year old status quo in place,
people who want other things have long ago dealt with
this and your just creating new things they have to
deal with, like undoing your tweaking of defaults,
which cause local customization patches to now fail
because you change the line they are trying to patch.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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