Thu 2010/Jun/17

• Custom prompt for jhbuild

  I used to have a hard time distinguishing jhbuild-controlled shells from normal shells. To help with this, I just pushed a small change to jhbuild. Now it sets an UNDER_JHBUILD environment variable, so your "jhbuild shell" can customize its prompt. You can add this to your .bashrc:

  if [ -n "$UNDER_JHBUILD" ]; then
      PS1="[jhbuild] $PS1"
  fi

  With this, my prompt now looks like this when I'm inside a jhbuild shell:

  [jhbuild] guanabana$

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