From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jpl.jpl at gmail.com (John P. Linderman) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:29:28 -0400 Subject: [COFF] Comparative promptology In-Reply-To: References: <201910272031.x9RKVSem124842@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <51f2d838-d097-a93f-b44d-9c670d206d2b@tnetconsulting.net> <7wsgnc4rfd.fsf_-_@junk.nocrew.org> Message-ID: A bit off-off-topic, but as I mentioned elsewhere, I was lucky enough to have one of the (if not *the*) first CRT terminals in the Labs. It was an HP 264?, and it supported scrolling back to stored lines, and re-entering them. I quickly settled in on a prompt that ended with "@", the default "line kill", so whatever came before was ignored, and only the command that followed was effectively re-entered. Quaint that "@" was a seldom-seen character then. I now have a prompt that ends with a newline. Still convenient for copy/paste. The prompt itself has colors, separating host name from current directory. This makes it easy to spot non-prompt line in the command line history, and to determine which host I am connected to in that window, and where I am on that host. On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 3:57 PM Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 1:51 PM Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > >> Dave Horsfall wrote: >> > Steve Nickolas wrote: >> >> 86-DOS actually did use ":" as a prompt character. >> > The best I've ever seen was RT-11's "." - talk about minimalist... >> > >> > Actually this thread probably belongs on COFF by now. >> >> I was bound to happen. List all the prompts! >> >> "*" seems popular on PDP-10s. >> > > "@ " was the TOPS-20 prompt. > "$ " was the VMS prompt > RSTS/E was just "Ready\n" > > But none of these get us closer to CP/M's > prompt. > > Warner > _______________________________________________ > COFF mailing list > COFF at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: