[COFF] What is your prompt?
Grant Taylor
gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net
Sun Dec 26 13:44:03 AEST 2021
On 12/25/21 12:14 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> 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).
Printing vs non-printing characters are important.
> 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.
Hum. I've not thought about trying to tease that information out of
environment variables. Instead, I create my own environment variables
and populate them from various $(uname ...) output.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
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