Hello, On Sun, 12 Jan 2025, at 21:18, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: >> My answer: you don’t. Dash is POSIX shell, don’t disambiguate it.
> Dash does not support escape sequences like \u, \w, \h in the prompt, > while Busybox ASH does support them, so we need to be able to tell one > from another. At least in Debian, dash is primarily a shell for scripts, not for interactive use. (That’s also why we don’t enable libedit.) So some escape sequences not being available in the prompt are not of a huge concern for us. I think the same can be said about HISTCONTROL. -- Cheers, Andrej
