On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 3:50 AM Jens-Ulrik Petersen <peter...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> In Fedora the bash prompt is not colored or highlighted by default.
>
> I personally find this a usability issue: it makes it hard to find previous
> commands between long outputs when scrolling back in a terminal. Of course
> in my own host I have a custom prompt, but it means whenever I am using a
> different Fedora/Centos/RHEL system or vm, the prompt is not highlighted by
> default, which I miss.
>
> Since I spent a little time thinking about and investigating this I thought I
> would write to start a discussion here.
>
> I noticed that Ubuntu has a bold green and blue prompt and NixOS has a green
> one by default, though not Archlinux or OpenSuSE I think.
>
> I think it would be nice to have a distinctive prompt by default, or at least
> a very easy way to get one permanently (ie in a single command: even if that
> were `dnf install bash-color-prompt` or running say `colorprompt` once).
>
> For example I could suggest we change the default fedora bash prompt from:
> PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
> to something like:
> PS1="\[\e[\${PROMPT_COLOR}m\][\u@\h \W]\[\e[0m\]\\$ ".
Maybe make it ${PROMPT_COLOR:-1;32} to have a default value without
polluting the environment?
> Then the PROMPT_COLOR envvar would make it easy for users to change or
> customize their prompt coloring anyway.
> For example with PROMPT_COLOR="1;32" one gets a bold green prompt, which
> seems readable in both dark or light terminals.
>
> What do people think overall? Are there other pros and cons of a color prompt?
> Any better ideas or direction?
I also have a colored prompt and I find the default prompt annoying
when I run a live system. I don't expect terminal users to be bothered
by this, as long as it doesn't conflict with their dotfiles (for those
who maintain theirs).
Dridi
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