Re: [COFF] What is your prompt?

Grant Taylor wrote in <517271a2-c18c-f6b2-e5a8-0f93b2accba7(a)spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>: |On 12/25/21 10:39 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> I might be the only living one who has the expansion of $? in $PS1. | |It's not $PS1, but I do have $? in my Zsh $RPROMPT. | |I used to have $? in $PS1 before switching to $RPROMPT. | |> (And who's "~/.shrc" gives a _somewhat_ portable PS1 with |> last-component-of HOSTNAME and PWD.) | |I'd like to know more. | |I don't know if it's a good thing or not, but portability across |platforms (OSs / architectures) is much less of an issue for me than it |was in my last job. Now I mostly worry about Linux and FreeBSD. |Admittedly, some really old versions. Sure. Oh the compatibility of shells i meant, of course. But that mostly colours, now that ~/.profile ensures HOSTNAME and LOGNAME per se. No more \XY escapes here, except \e and the \[..\] that some need (to get it column counting right, with colours) (SHTYPE=bash and =yash). And the "set -o" you need/can to get where you want to be, ksh for example braceexpand, emacs-usemeta (if possible), expand_aliases (bash), cdprint/emacs/tabcomplete (NetBSD ksh). It is of course all a bitrot-affine compatibility mess. You look for $0, sometimes deeper for some *_VERSION, for $OSTYPE (which my ~/.profile sets, too). But in the end it is all a mess. If i recall correctly i once proposed a standardized VERSION or xy thing so that one could easily identify, even in subshells. But that would affect future shells only, anyhow. At one time i have thrown away a lot of tests, since fish and some other shells i will never use no more, what remains is just enough to start working the best i can with dash, bash, ksh. Last change on PS1 in March 2018, i usually only have one account per $HOSTNAME. Pretty bitter is shells without aliases, where the a-lia-ses have to be created as sh_ell_functions. And then one says builtin, the other says built-in. Yeah i mean computing would be nice, if there would not be those uncountable quirks you need in real life. The maintainer of libinput has written a short down-to-earth article on that a few years ago. That reminds me of my bitter gut feeling that something bad will happen, all these days, but luckily the rocket that carried some real penis lifted successfully. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)