On 8/2/2013 8:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 08/02/2013 05:00 PM, David wrote:
> Well good then. You changed your system from the distroution defaults to
> what you, personally, want. What works for you.
>
> Windows users do that. they set the default installed system to what
> they want. MacOS users do that too. So all is good then?
I'd probably prefer it if the various alias scripts were called from
~/.bashrc with comments so that they could be commented out, but I'm not
holding my breath. As it is, I'm content with what I have, and it's
easy to show others how to do it if they ask. I'm not sure why color is
the default, and I'd be astonished if anybody here knew, but I'm not
about to waste time arguing the question because it's not important.
I have had this for 'my' prompt(s) for so long, probably around Red Hat 6.0.
COLOR1="\[\033[1;37m\]"
[ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="$COLOR1[\u] \w
\\$ "
this makes my prompt show my name in bright white in [] as well as the
current directory
I use this one for 'root'
# Root prompt
COLOR1="\[\033[1;37m\]"
COLOR2="\[\033[1;31m\]"
PS1="$COLOR1[$COLOR2\u$COLOR1] \$PWD \\$ "
which shows 'root' in bright red but the rest in bright white.
These define the variables COLORx and use them in the prompt Something I
learned many, many years ago.
No magic involved. ANSI codes and defining Bash variables. Which is what
I assume they Fedora people, and others, do.
Have a good day.
--
David