RE: Why no useful defaults?

[Borzenkov Andrey <Andrey.Borzenkov@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> > > I like the default prompt...
> 
> > Hm, most of the people I'm showing zsh and trying to convince them
> > that it's A LOT better than bash see the default prompt and say yuck.
> 
> What does the default prompt have to do with it? The default bash prompt
> is 'bash-[version#]$ '; eg "bash-2.05a$ ' - how much more interesting is
> that?
> 

Exactly. It is a business for distributions to make sure all shells share
the same look and feel including prompts. If people are brave enough to
compile from sources they should be able to setup own prompt as well without
much hassle.

-andrey