From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8614 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2003 17:28:05 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Jan 2003 17:28:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 4761 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2003 17:27:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5784 Received: (qmail 4748 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2003 17:27:33 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.3 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030120103001.B2388@radiomaranon.org.pe> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:27:30 -0700 (MST) Reply-To: seth@cql.com Organization: M. I. S. Corp. Sender: seth@sos.cql.com From: seth@cql.com To: Andy Spiegl Subject: Re: Why no useful defaults? Cc: ZSH User List There is a default system wide configuration file with a reasonable prompt. It isn't the default prompt I would have chosen, but that is a different issue. On 20-Jan-2003 Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi again, > > another question that I've been asking myself for a long time. > Now I decided the list is the better place to ask this. :-) > > 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. :-) > > But I'd really find it a good idea to provide the beginner with a little > more of the really powerful things zsh has to offer. Anyone seconds? > Andy. > > -- > http://peru.spiegl.de Our project > http://radiomaranon.org.pe Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú > o _ _ _ > ------- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) -o) > ----- _`\<,_ _`\<,_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ /\\ > ---- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ _\_v > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks? -- ---------------------------------- Seth Kurtzberg M. I. S. Corp. E-Mail: seth@cql.com Date: 20-Jan-2003 Time: 10:26:47 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------