On Wed, 21 May 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
'=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= wrote:'
So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D
No, PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' !
I guess this will become a flame war. So I'd prefer to leave prompt
alone. Or maybe the boot disks can have a dialog
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
How about:
PS1='\[\033[40;31m\]pwd: \[\033[40;33m\]\w \[\033[40;[EMAIL PROTECTED] '
I'll repeat my conclusion: leave it as PS1=\\$
That's your `conclusion'? After _what_ thinking?
and provide a
customization app for sysadmins to edit
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On Mon, 26 May 1997, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
Ok..! Let's use PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ '... It's much better than '
\\$'...
Yes!, please!, let's use PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' !
Or even better: PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' for root and
'Raul Miller wrote:'
'=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= wrote:'
So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D
On May 21, Chris Fearnley wrote
No, PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' !
I'd prefer PS1='\$ '
However, if you want all that fanciness, a compromise is:
PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W\$ '
# Function for Midnight Commander - see its help screens
mc() {
MC=/tmp/mc$$-$RANDOM
/usr/bin/mc -c -x -P $@ $MC
cd `cat $MC`
rm $MC
unset MC;
}
status_after_prompt() {
prompt_status=$?
if [ $prompt_status != 0 ]
then
'=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= wrote:'
So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D
On May 21, Chris Fearnley wrote
No, PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' !
I guess this will become a flame war. So I'd prefer to leave prompt
alone. Or maybe the boot disks can have a dialog script to
John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John I don't think Debian is really aiming at newbies. (RedHat
John is) Debian is aiming at the power user or admin type -- the
John people that already know Unix.
But you have to consider the case of an ISP that wants to use Debian
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Anybody should know that before typing rm -rf * or an equivolent,
you THINK FIRST, every time.
The problem does not arise when you type rm the first time but after you
have some confidence and you think you know what you are doing.
Everybody
I can put that into the chris-cust package ...
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Tom Lees wrote:
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Anybody should know that before typing rm -rf * or an equivolent,
you THINK FIRST, every time.
The problem does not arise when you type rm the first time but
Generally, after installing any system, I add this to ~/.profile for
root:-
alias rm=/bin/rm -i
This is a BAD thing to do. If you want this use a different name, like:
alias del=/bin/rm -i
Otherwise it is all too easy to get into the habit of doing
rm *
and picking the ones you want,
I dont care how the prompt looks. Just pick one and dont leave it the way
it is. Who is the maintainer of the package in question? Let him decide.
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
'=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= wrote:'
So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D
No, PS1='[EMAIL
This is why changing the default prompt for everyone is not a good
idea. You guys can't even agree on what you want the new prompt to
be. And if you want my personal preference, any prompt longer than
'$ ' is too long. If I want to know what directory I'm in, I just
pwd.
Instead of arguing
Nicolás Lichtmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Most people that adopt Linux come from DOS. Linux is expanding the UNIX
users base. I come from DOS-OS/2 too. I used Slackware, and I changed
because it was a mess. Current newbies that start with RH won't change to
Debian, they don't need to. And
The difference is that RedHat's X configurator configures not only X,
but also mail, news, printers, networking, etc. It's a configurator
that runs under X -- not really a configurator for XFree86.
If we are wanting to go that way; fine. I have no problem with it.
As long as we don't go so far
Anybody should know that before typing rm -rf * or an equivolent,
you THINK FIRST, every time.
The problem does not arise when you type rm the first time but after you
have some confidence and you think you know what you are doing.
Everybody knows what you should think first. But who does after
Oh, I see. Nevermind then -- what you're saying is that the X
configurator is at the level of an X based dselect -- so that's the
problem of the diety team, right? (Thus it's not something I need
to be particularly concerned with.) Thanks... _Mark_
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Anybody should know that before typing rm -rf * or an equivalent,
you THINK FIRST, every time.
And AFTER you type it.
The prompt doesn't make the slightest difference when the death knell sounds:
rm: .o: No such file or directory
and it dawns on you there was an extra space in the last
On 19 May 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
I agree with most of what you are saying; however, I think you sorta
missed the point I was trying to make (which is probably my fault
because I didn't make it very clearly g)
=)
My problem is not so much with changing root's default prompt on new
On May 19, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D
Too long. But better than nothing.
It isn't too long...!
[nick] newton:~/src/deb/lftp-0.11.1$
[nick] newton:~/src/deb/lftp-0.11.1$
[nick]
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Brian Mays wrote:
This is why changing the default prompt for everyone is not a good
idea. You guys can't even agree on what you want the new prompt to
be. And if you want my personal preference, any prompt longer than
'$ ' is too long. If I want to know what directory
Hi,
[This may well be orthogonal, or in addition to, the solutions discussed]
Maybe we could offer some example of tips and tricks? My
preffered prompt mechanism sets the xterm title to (like right now)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/var/tmp
with a short prompt of '__ ', or the above
Nicolás Lichtmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Be prepared to receive lots of messages saying things like unix is for
real men that can look manpages set their own prompts and we shouldn't
make any decision about the system's look and feel, the sysadm should...
The kind of decisions that keep
If we want to be friendly to newbies, we can write an X configurator
like RedHat; but I don't think that's what we want.
I've heard rumors of this, but not seen it -- how does it differ from
XF86Setup (not xf86config, which is probably what the debian
old-timers think of, but the new tk-based
On 18 May 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
Be prepared to receive lots of messages saying things like unix is for
real men that can look manpages set their own prompts and we shouldn't
make any decision about the system's look and feel, the sysadm should...
The kind of decisions that keep
So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D
Too long. But better than nothing.
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On May 19, Christoph Lameter wrote
So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D
Too long. But better than nothing.
PS=[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\\w\\$ ?
2 charaters shorter... :-)
regards, andreas
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Too long when displayed. Not too long when specified.
Wit the hostname and the current directory I already run into more than 80
characters at times.
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
On May 19, Christoph Lameter wrote
So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D
Too long. But
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