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Re: changing a shell prompt


From: Baloff
Subject: Re: changing a shell prompt
Date: 30 Aug 2005 17:38:21 +1000
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4

Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com> writes:

> Baloff <washdc@wash.edu> writes:
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > in trying to change my shell prompt, I created a file .emacs_bash
> > since my shell is bash
> > $which bash
> > /bin/bash
> >
> > when I M-x shell
> > I still don't get the new prompt I specified in the file .emacs_bash
> 
> And what do you put in ~/.emacs_bash?

set prompt="emacs:$"

> 
> For example, I've got this:
> 
> alias less=cat ; alias more=cat ; echo Hi! ; PS1='PROMT>'
> 
> and when I M-x shell, I get:
> 
> [pjb@thalassa pjb]$ Hi!
> PROMT> echo 'Howdy?'
> Howdy?
> PROMT>
> 
> 
> -- 
> __Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
> 
> In a World without Walls and Fences, 
> who needs Windows and Gates?


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