[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: readline-5.2-3, libreadline6-5.2-3

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Fri Nov 10 20:43:00 GMT 2006


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> On Nov 10 07:11, Eric Blake wrote:
> > PS1='\[\e[1m\e[42m\e[37m\]@_______. . \[\e[0m\]\n'\
> > '\[\e[1m\e[42m\e[37m\](       /"\\ \[\e[0m\]\n'\
> > '\[\e[1m\e[42m\e[37m\] ||--||(___)\[\e[0m\]\n'\
> > '\[\e[1m\e[42m\e[37m\] '\''"  '\''"'\''---'\''\[\e[0m\]'\
> > ' \[\e[1m\e[31m\]\$\[\e[0m\] '
> 
> Can we get this as default PS1 in /etc/profile?

Oooh!  Ooooh!  And instead of issuing error messages, let's see if we
can find a way to turn the user's prompt into a little ascii art
representation of the problem... nothing says "multiple cygwin DLL
problem" like a little goatse man in ascii art.

Brian



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