Re: changing a shell prompt

[Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>]

Baloff <washdc@wash.edu> writes:

> Hello
>
> in trying to change my shell prompt, I created a file .emacs_bash
> since my shell is bash
> $which bash
> /bin/bash
>
> when I M-x shell
> I still don't get the new prompt I specified in the file .emacs_bash

And what do you put in ~/.emacs_bash?

For example, I've got this:

alias less=cat ; alias more=cat ; echo Hi! ; PS1='PROMT>'

and when I M-x shell, I get:

[pjb@thalassa pjb]$ Hi!
PROMT> echo 'Howdy?'
Howdy?
PROMT>


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