This alias removes any output which would be generated. By default,
`nohup` generates a `nohup.out` file in the cwd or home directory with
the output from the executed program. Most of the time I don't need to
monitor the program's output, and when I do, I can easily run `\nohup
<program>` to circumvent this alias.
As far as external motd programs go, neofetch seems to be
better-maintained than screenfetch, and has some features I prefer like
incremental printing and a fairly robust configuration.
For a system which does not have a VSCode installation, other parts of
setup should still be attempted even if these particular configs can't
be put in place.
As-is, the `column -t` invocation works very poorly and is effectively
useless as it can't communicate the information it ought to. For the
time being (until the next Debian stable coreutils update) the format
`alias = 'cmd'` is more readable and useful. This commit also expands a
good bit on the ideal command chain of the post-coreutils update alias
and the possible issues left to solve after that implementation is done.
While `/bin/bash` is the default in many systems, it cannot be relied
upon for _all_ systems, particularly ones such as MacOS where the
default `/bin/bash` is a very old version. Instead, use the `bash`
executable from the system's PATH.
While these configs are useful in the event that I want to `git pull` on
feature branches and have them update from their source branch, I find
that in practice I rarely use this workflow. I generally only pull on
branches which track a remote branch directly, and I normally reach for
`git rebase` when updating feature branches from their source. These
configurations also interfere with my workflow of `git push` creating
the branch in my origin if absent.
Rather than re-constructing PS1 each time the prompt is called, it can
be built once. The portions of it which call functions are still called,
so there is no drawback to setting it and forgetting it.
When running as root (via `sudo su`, for instance), XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is
usually not set, which causes some warning messages to be printed prior
to screenfetch's output. I don't care about this, so I don't want to see
it.
In the interest of not messing with colons in filenames (among other
characters), this function has been changed to only remove control
characters and convert '/' to '-'. In the future, this should be updated
to check the current filesystem and use the appropriate munging for it.
Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35352640/540162
Setting the `LESS` environment variable overrides the defaults used by
core.pager, which are FRX. Because `-R` is set in .bash_profile, only
`-FX` need be provided to provide the same option coverage.
