* martin f krafft <[email protected]> [20100131 09:29]: > Since /usr/share/base-files/dot.bashrc exports PS1, this means that > subshells inherit the value rather than setting sensible defaults. > zsh has a different prompt expansion syntax, so when it starts as > a subshell of bash, it'll display a prompt of (literally)
> \h:\w\$ > which is not very useful. If I unset PS1 before I switch shells, > then zsh sets a proper default instead. ACK. It's related to #443245 where you can see that /usr/share/base-files/dot.bashrc even overrides bash's default PS1 handling itself (like the /etc/debian_chroot feature). regards, -mika-
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