Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Mar 11, 12:33pm, Anupam Srivastava wrote: } } Sorry for this newb question. What else should one do if not export } PS1. I am exporting PROMPT and RPROMPT in my ~/.zshrc It's quite correct to assign a value to PROMPT et al. in ~/.zshrc. Just don't mark it as "export". The use of "export PS1" is sensible in the old Bourne shell and in a strictly POSIX shell, because there is no file that is read by every interactive shell (only ~/.profile read by login shells).
I can't speak to the original Bourne shell, but a strictly POSIX shell still has "export ENV=~/.shrc" as an option, which would seem preferable.