On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 06:54:36AM -0500, Numien wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Smylers wrote: > | Scott Francis writes: > |> * default setting of remote window title - if I wanted my terminal > |> windows to say bash, CWD, hostname, tty and process, I'd bloody > |> well set it myself. > | > | The sytems I've seen doing this set it as part of the Bash prompt. > | I'm not aware of Linux as a whole doing that -- many servers I've > | SSHed to don't, of various distributions of Linux. > | > | The default Bash prompt appears to just give the version of Bash > | being used, which is pretty hateful; do the Bash developers really > | think that I'm always so eager to make use of a feature only in the > | latest point release that the most important thing I need to know for > | every single command is precisely which version of Bash this is? > | > | So many people either have their own preferred PS1 (in .bashrc) which > | they deploy on all systems (in which case they are immune from any > | OS defaults, such as setting the title) or take advantage of the OS > | default being more useful than the Bash default. In the latter case, > | they clearly can't please everybody; if they did the opposite, some > | people could complain about it being missing -- remote Windows which > | are unhelpfully labelled with whichever directory on the local > | computer one happened to be in when SSHing. > > 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. Abigail
