Re: Good, easy to use, upstream defaults for zsh (i.e. improving usability)

[Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Jul 10), Keir Mierle said:

> > Ideas:
> > 
> >  * Add colors or at least boldface to the default prompt. The
> >  reasoning behind

> Bodface is the only thing you'll ever get in a default, since you have
> no way of even predicting whether a user will be using a black-on-white
> xterm or a white-on-black console.  I like "(%n@%m) %B%/>%(#/#/)%b".

No guarantee that the shell supports boldface either,
        nikolai

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