https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces en a blog about Debian and self-hosting Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:27:00 +0000 PluXml https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1317803247-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1317803247-1 emh... pwd|xsel Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:27:00 +0000 lorexvii https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1317803209-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1317803209-1 `pwd`|xsel ? Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:26:00 +0000 lorexvii https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1317417961-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1317417961-1 I prefer _not_ to have a space between hostname and path, because then the prompt is also a proper and easy to copy and paste parameter to scp or rsync. :-) Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:26:00 +0000 Axel https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1317139337-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1317139337-1 I'm more likely to need a path including username and host (for ssh/scp, as previously mentioned) and so I use this: \[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007\]\[\033[1;37m\]\033[1;40m\]\[\033[1D\]\u@\h:\w\n\[\033[0m\]$ which includes a newline rather than a space. Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:02:00 +0000 -dsr- https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1317128532-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1317128532-1 Your OS is simply broken ☺ The default mksh prompt looks like this: root@aranym:~/OUT # _ The default uxterm selection stops at the colon. Note that, on Kubuntu, you need to write UXTerm*charClass: 33:33,35:35,37:37,38:38,43:43,44:44,45:45,46:46,47:47,58:58,61:61,62:62,63:63,64:64,95:48,126:126 into ~/.Xresources to fix their brain damage and restore the default uxterm character classes. Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:02:00 +0000 mirabilos https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1317037580-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1317037580-1 But then, c&p including the host name isn't possible anymore. Well, at least you would have to erase the spaces again if you c&p to an ssh/scp command. Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:46:00 +0000 jhr https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1317011327-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1317011327-1 This extra space in the prompt is already the default in Gentoo. PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w \$\[\033[00m\]' Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:28:00 +0000 Alexander E. Patrakov https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1316985450-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article28/prompt-spaces/#c1316985450-1 Interesting point, but the few times I've needed the current directory, I find it more convenient to just type pwd | xsel. Also, gnome-terminal has the same word-select behavior as Stuart mentioned for konsole. More frequently, though, I end up just launching whatever program I want to run directly and passing it '.'; I haven't run into a need for copying the current directory very often. Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:17:00 +0000 Anonymous