From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8309 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2003 17:05:52 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Jan 2003 17:05:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 23697 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2003 17:05:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5782 Received: (qmail 23689 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2003 17:05:18 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:05:18 -0800 From: william@hq.newdream.net (Will Yardley) To: ZSH User List Subject: Re: Why no useful defaults? Message-ID: <20030120170518.GM3966@hq.newdream.net> Mail-Followup-To: ZSH User List References: <20030120103001.B2388@radiomaranon.org.pe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030120103001.B2388@radiomaranon.org.pe> Organization: New Dream Network X-Image-Url: http://infinitejazz.net/will/mailpic.jpg User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Andy Spiegl wrote: > I am wondering why zsh doesn't come with some useful defaults? No > wonder that many people don't even know about zsh or try it once and > never again, because without at least a prompt that shows the current > dir it's worse than command.com. No, sorry I'm exagerating. :-) I like the default prompt... I'm glad zsh doesn't have some silly fancy schmancy prompt as the default. There are example prompts which come with zsh that are a lot fancier. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >