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Subject: root prompt (was: early reaction(s) to rc)

Arnold Robbins writes:
> Byron has told me in private mail he doesn't think the shell should
> automatically change prompts for root.  I disagree, but not terribly
> strongly.  My own suggestion for a root prompt would be ';; '.

a simple work-around, which does not require hard-coding anything in the  
shell is
	fn su { prompt=('!; ' '') /bin/su $* }

for logging in as root, just set the prompt in .rcrc.

note that i use !; as my root prompt.  (! is almost a no-op: status gets set  
wrong, but that's a minor inconvenience.)

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