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What does your prompt look like? Looking for inspiration.export PS1="\a\n\n\e[31;1m\]\u@\h on \d at \@\n\e[33;1m\]\w\e[0m\n$ "
>5 line prompt
Die in a fire
>>51849730
It could be smaller which is why I'm looking for inspiration
>>51851267
zsh? never much cared for the lengthier and multiple line prompts but i could see how one might like it
i quite fancy the default fish configuration
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the timestamp is the current time, and the 3-character thing is just an indicator of which machine I'm on. In practice I actually have like 5 machines whose prompts I use, and some of them share the same .zshrc file through github and I didn't want to deal with branching and merging and shit, so I just have the script figure this shit out.
my retina mbp has the same look, but it says "mbp" instead.
>>51851622
How do you define all those functions outside of the .bash_profile
>>51851658
what?
>>51849702
here play with that.
https://www.kirsle.net/wizards/ps1.html
>>51851658
1) I use zsh
2) it might help to understand the order in which these things are loaded. A quick google yielded this: https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/zshbash-startup-files-loading-order-bashrc-zshrc-etc/
I use ">"
