Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:26:56 -0500 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@freebsd.czest.pl> Subject: Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh Message-ID: <CAF6rxgnBGM8_sLcnmjvOKDnXSK-3rnfVJsy-RomTZwwpRCWDbw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CACxBGJN0=qKgg1Q58o0dp_1eRbc6VhOfT-4LV0_ELbCfeVpsFQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAF6rxgnebQUY8azv8fovQPkB%2BGgsQjaByZ6JwnNWjrM1hB65eQ@mail.gmail.com> <1328887627.38277.68.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <CAF6rxgmjQX%2B8hZVdjYBHJfonegavYhY_22gyVszpPvxhAKbvTA@mail.gmail.com> <CACxBGJN0=qKgg1Q58o0dp_1eRbc6VhOfT-4LV0_ELbCfeVpsFQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> wrote: > Personally, I pay very little attention to the prompt. That being said... > Plenty of people prefer widely different configurations for the prompt. > I think everyone agrees that the default prompt isn't particularly > informative, however, achieving consensus here is going to be almost > impossible. I suggest that it be handled as a seperate discussion, > perhaps? That would result in even more of a bikeshed than this thread. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with one of the prompts posted to this thread after a bit of experimentation. Remember that the prompts are for inexperienced users and those of you with awesome prompts are not the target audience for the change. > I am against this change, barring a more compelling reason to include > it. Default behavior limits $PATH to areas that are only writable as > root, and there is no garuntee that $HOME can only be written by the > user. As a result, the change may create unanticipated and unnoticed > security consequences some installations. I believe this outweighs the > functionality provided by the proposed change, given how trivial this > is to configure after the fact. set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin $HOME/bin) is the default -- Eitan Adler
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