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.


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