Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!neat.ai.toronto.edu!lamy
From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Subject: PS1 wishes
Message-ID: <89Jun20.215016edt.11717@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 21:50:01 EDT

\w should turn the leading part of the prompt into ~ if it matches the
user's home directory; I think I know that it /homes/neat/car/lamy by now.

also, I would like a tcsh-like option to display only the base name of the
current directory (I hate starting to type at column 40 :-)

Finally, I think ksh allows for commands to be executed within the prompt,
something like PS1='`basename \w`' would be cute :-)