I came across from a post by Bart Schaefer, one of the lead zsh developers.
He clearly mentions that exporting the PS1 variable it doesn't make
sense in modern shells.
Bart Schaefer wrote:
> The use of "export PS1" is sensible in the old Bourne shell and in a
> strictly POSIX shell, because there is no file that is read by every
> interactive shell (only ~/.profile read by login shells). It doesn't
> make sense in bash or zsh, because ~/.*shrc can set it and the various
> replacements (like zsh's %m and bash's \h for the machine name) are not
> compatible anyway, if you happen to start up some other shell.
I am using zsh as my login shell and I made a small experiment.
Steps:
1.
a) Removed ~/.bashrc
b) Export the PS1 in ~/.zshrc.
Result:
[ag][401](~)bash
[%{%}%n%{%}][%{%}%h%{%}](%{%}%~%{%})
2.
a) Removed ~/.bashrc
b) Assigned the PS1 in ~/.zshrc without exporting the variable.
Result:
[ag][401](~)bash
bash-3.1$ echo $PS1
\s-\v\$
Conclusion.
Exporting the PS1 variable is a bad idea.
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