On Jul 1, 2015 4:02 PM, "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> > I reckon it has the unfortunate property of not working out of the box
> > (except on GuixSD.)  I’m sure many tools these days would choose to
> > hard-code a fancy colored PS1; while I prefer things that work out of
> > the box, I’m not comfortable with hard-coding such things.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> I agree with you.  I'd rather not hard-code some fancy PS1.

Leaving power PS1 to power users is the reasonable thing to do. Colored
path and username etc is fine, but every user has their own ideas on where
git branch and other things ought to go.