At 4:13pm -0400 Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Alex wrote:
> Daniel... for reference... my PS1 line in .bashrc looks like this:
>
> export PS1="\n\[\e[1;32m\]\H \[\e[37m\]| \[\e[31m\]\w \[\e[37m\]|
> \[\e[1;35m\]\t \[\e[4;35m\]\d\n\[\e[0;32m\]\u\[\e[1;37m\] ( \[\e[1;36m\]\! :
> \#\[\e[1;37m\] ) \$ \[\e[0;39m\]"

Heh.  I take you never have to work with a light background?  That's one
reason I opted to use PROMPT_COMMAND, so that I can dynamically change
my prompt.  LIGHTBG=t, and I get a new color palette.

Also, why do you export your PS1?  Do subprocesses need to know what
your prompt looks like?

Kevin