[LUNI] Customize the PS1 prompt

Mike Crawford mike at tuxnami.org
Fri Jun 6 13:11:00 CDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 11:07, Martin Maney wrote:
> It makes perfect sense for bash not to forget the "real" last-run
> process's result just because it runs a throwaway process in the
> prompt.  "You remember what you want to remember, and you forget what
> you want to forget.  You dig?"

Yah, I think it's been fixed in newer versions.  When I made my prompt
several years back, I remember not being able to execute a command in ``
because it messed up the $? (one of my favorite parts of my prompt :).

mike



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