From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Good, easy to use, upstream defaults for zsh (i.e. improving usability)
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:51:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050711155127.GF5116@dan.emsphone.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050711154533.GB5307@puritan.pnetwork>
In the last episode (Jul 11), Nikolai Weibull said:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Jul 10), Keir Mierle said:
> > > Ideas:
> > >
> > > * Add colors or at least boldface to the default prompt. The
> > > reasoning behind
> > Bodface is the only thing you'll ever get in a default, since you have
> > no way of even predicting whether a user will be using a black-on-white
> > xterm or a white-on-black console. I like "(%n@%m) %B%/>%(#/#/)%b".
>
> No guarantee that the shell supports boldface either,
%B and %b will simply expand to empty strings in that case, and no harm
done.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-11 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-10 22:37 Keir Mierle
2005-07-10 22:59 ` Mike Hernandez
2005-07-10 23:22 ` Keir Mierle
2005-07-11 15:44 ` Nikolai Weibull
2005-07-11 15:54 ` Travis Spencer
2005-07-11 16:24 ` Nikolai Weibull
2005-07-11 16:35 ` Keir Mierle
2005-07-11 16:13 ` Keir Mierle
2005-07-11 17:02 ` Nikolai Weibull
2005-07-13 5:44 ` Keir Mierle
2005-07-13 9:23 ` Nikolai Weibull
2005-07-14 12:03 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-07-14 15:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-07-14 17:43 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-07-15 0:54 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-07-15 8:58 ` Oliver Kiddle
2005-07-15 9:46 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-07-11 2:58 ` Dan Nelson
2005-07-11 15:45 ` Nikolai Weibull
2005-07-11 15:51 ` Dan Nelson [this message]
2005-07-11 15:23 ` Travis Spencer
2005-07-11 15:44 ` Stephen Rueger
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