Hi, On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > I wonder if I could ask people opinions on a trick I pulled, which is > basically maintain a state of the value of $SECONDS each time the user > is shown a bash prompt. If the value is the same as last time (meaning > he hit enter twice in a row very quickly), it runs the extra stuff. As you know, I am a big fan of consistency. In this light, I do not like it when I am shown something at times, and at other times not. Besides, I agree with Junio that even a single second spent to calculate PS1 is too much. I use my command line extensively (some claim I live in it). An slow PS1 would drive me to madness. Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
