From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17439 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2003 06:13:35 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 21 Jan 2003 06:13:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 5382 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2003 06:13:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5787 Received: (qmail 5369 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2003 06:13:07 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) From: Borzenkov Andrey To: "'ZSH User List'" Subject: RE: Why no useful defaults? Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:12:59 +0300 Message-ID: <6134254DE87BD411908B00A0C99B044F03A0B5EA@mowd019a.mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 In-Reply-To: <20030120184959.GC28632@hq.newdream.net> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal >=20 > > > I like the default prompt... >=20 > > Hm, most of the people I'm showing zsh and trying to convince them > > that it's A LOT better than bash see the default prompt and say = yuck. >=20 > What does the default prompt have to do with it? The default bash = prompt > is 'bash-[version#]$ '; eg "bash-2.05a$ ' - how much more interesting = is > that? >=20 Exactly. It is a business for distributions to make sure all shells = share the same look and feel including prompts. If people are brave enough to compile from sources they should be able to setup own prompt as well = without much hassle. -andrey