On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 06:05:16PM +0100, Abigail wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 06:54:36AM -0500, Numien wrote: > > As much as I disagree with turning software hate into > > hates-software-subscriber hate, I have to agree this isn't exactly one > > of my big complaints with Linux. > > > > It's not all that hard to edit a config file to set PS1 to whatever you > > want, including nothing. Same goes for default aliases, including rm -i. > > Both you and Smylers got it wrong. PS1 sets the prompt in bash. It has > nothing to do with the hate of Scott, which is about window titles.
Well, the thing is that PS1 /can/ be used to set the window title if wanted. Most people seem to use PROMPT_COMMAND instead though.
