[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

[Peter Corlett]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:59:53PM +0100, James Laver wrote:
[...]
> term.el is severely lacking, even to the point where the first thing I
> have to do when m-x term'ing is set PS1='$ ' because otherwise my custom
> PS1 will take up the screen because it doesn't recognise OR remove ansi
> escapes that I happen to use to colour my prompt (helps me pick out the
> information).

In your .bashrc:

if [ "X$TERM" == "Xdumb" ] ; then
    export PS1='\$ '
else
    export PS1=$ANGRY_FRUIT_SALAD
fi

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