Revisionist History. I broke up with a very old friend of mine after suggesting that The Lady Vanishes episode is hinting gently at jewish exceptionalism.
Following the lead of Brussels that was doing it for decades. And the yearly (sic!) STIB-MIVB subscription costs 50€ for students between 12 and 24 years old.
Truncate the $PWD to ¼ of the terminal width and put the result into the command prompt:
# truncate the $PWD
function cut_pwd
{
newPWD="${PWD/#$HOME/\~}"
local pwdmaxlen=$((${COLUMNS:-80}/4))
if [ ${#newPWD} -gt $pwdmaxlen ]
then
newPWD=".+${newPWD: -$pwdmaxlen}"
fi
}
PROMPT_COMMAND=cut_pwd
PS1="\h:\${newPWD} \\$ "
The maximum universally accepted death tall is 4000 but it is not actual deaths but rather outcome of statistical simulations. Still, much lower than 2.1 mln.