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

[Dan Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the last episode (Jul 11), Nikolai Weibull said:
> 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,

%B and %b will simply expand to empty strings in that case, and no harm
done.

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	Dan Nelson
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