Once upon a time, Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > I agree that opening square bracket is useless, but I want to have the > directory and $/# character separated. This prompt is well established, > however I agree that we can probably get one character less with > something like > foo@localhost lib>$ I freely admit this is just an opinion thing, but: why do you need two separator characters between the directory and the command? Also, I would avoid ">" as that's the old csh prompt character. My personal prompt for a long time has been '\h:\!:\w\$ ', which gives prompts like (I like having the full path, which is another reason I'm sensitive to longer hostnames as well): linode:20:~$ linode:21:/var/log$ Having the history number is useful if you like to use '!<number>' commands to re-run a previous command (although I don't usually do that anymore, and have left ':\!' in the prompt just because it looks weird to me without a number now :) ). Obviously, I change the prompt on my personal systems, but not usually on work/shared systems, so I would still affected by changing the default. I just think that any change should have some good justification behind it at this point, not just opinion or "it is obviously better" (with no reasoning). -- Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
