On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:12:39AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > why take up 3/4 of the first line with my path.  i already know 
> > > where i am...  

Because, sometimes you don't.  Like after being away from your
terminal for a while.  :)

> I prefer this:
> 
> dsr@tao:~
> $ 

I do this also, but I put the location in brackets (I think it looks
neater) and in addition I like my terminal window title bar to tell me
where I am.  My prompt looks like this:

PS1="\[\033]2;${chroot}\u@\h \W\007\][${chroot}\u@\h \w]\n\\$ "

${chroot} is set to "CHROOT " earlier in my .bashrc when I've chrooted
into a virtual build environment (based on the location of a file in
the chroot environment), and null otherwise.  You can do all sorts of
interesting things like that with your prompt.  

My prompt looks like this:

[demartin@myhost ~/Code/Python]
$ 

And my terminal window title bar says:

  demartin@myhost Python

If I'm in my chroot environment, both of those start with the string
"CHROOT " so I can tell the difference.

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