pkg upgrade cdecl 2.5 didn't show a prompt but 3.1.3 does (though the prompt is in /green/. Sigh...) > On May 15, 2017, at 9:58 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > >> On Mon, 15 May 2017, Michael Kjörling wrote: >> >> It does print "cdecl> " as a prompt on my system. > [...] >> The man page for mine says 2.5, Jan 1996, and the Debian package >> version says 2.5-11. 1996 in 2017 is old even for Debian. > > I've got 2.5 as well (on FreeBSD 10.3), and "set prompt" has no effect. > I even rebuilt it in case there was a later version. > >> Are you sure that you don't have a stray alias somewhere, or something >> that might be causing it to misdetect as not running in a terminal? > > aneurin% cdecl > Type `help' or `?' for help > set prompt > set options > [...] > Current set values are: > noprompt > interactive > > WTF? > > I'll fire up GDB and have a poke around (once I'm properly awake; I only > got up for a glass of water, and couldn't help but check my email). > > > -- > Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."