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> The prompt style I use was invented, IIRC, by one of the Bell Labs Unix guys in the early days of windowing terminals. : text;

My prompt is two lines. The first line is info line followed by $ prompt on the next line. If I were so inclined, I would simply change the $ to ; or blank. I don't have to choose only one of them, but if that were the case, the verbose prompt would have stayed and ; would have gotten the boot.



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