User:Pepoluan/Arch Customizations

This is a list of the various customization I do on my Arch Linux installation.

powerpill

pacman -S powerpill

vim instead of vi

powerpill -S vim
powerpill -R vi
ln -s /usr/bin/vim /usr/bin/vi
cp /usr/share/vim/vim73/vimrc_example.vim ~/.vimrc

bash colored & explicit prompt

... by placing the following code above the last line of /etc/bash.bashrc:

# Default color: Lightblue
PROMPT_COLOR='1;34m'

# If I am root, set the prompt to bright red
if [ ${UID} -eq 0 ]; then
  PROMPT_COLOR='1;31m'
fi

PS1='\e[${PROMPT_COLOR}\][\u @ \e[m\]\H\e[${PROMPT_COLOR}\] ${PWD}]\n\#\$ \[\e[m\]'

ls in color and coded

... by placing the following code above the last line of /etc/bash.bashrc:

ls () {
  /bin/ls --color=auto -aFv $*
}