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From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
To: Brian Zick <brian@zick.io>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins of shell prompt suffixes % $ > #
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 00:31:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180807073136.GA37082@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1533588813.1868321.1465431536.01CE36BC@webmail.messagingengine.com>

On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 09:53:33PM +0100, Brian Zick wrote:
>
> rc uses ;
       
Does it?  10th edition Unix and Plan 9 rc both have ('% ' ' ') as the   
default value of $prompt.  At least that's how it's described in the
manual.  None of the v8/9/10 tarballs in the archive contain rc code,
but some contain manual source, and those describe % prompts.

I've seen other references to ; (presumably  ('; ' ' ')) as the rc 
prompt but I've never seen it in the wild.  Does anyone here know what 
the story is?
       
khm

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-07  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-06 20:53 Brian Zick
2018-08-06 21:16 ` ron
2018-08-06 21:33   ` Henry Bent
2018-08-07  1:10     ` George Michaelson
2018-08-07  1:12       ` ron
2018-08-07  1:10     ` ron
2018-08-07  6:54 ` Michael Kjörling
2018-08-07  8:02   ` Michael Kjörling
2018-08-07  8:23     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-07  8:37       ` KatolaZ
2018-08-07 10:45     ` Tony Finch
2018-08-07 17:35       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-08-08 14:38       ` Nemo
2018-08-08 14:51         ` Clem Cole
2018-08-07 11:24     ` Pete Turnbull
2018-08-08 19:55     ` Derek Fawcus
2018-08-07  7:31 ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2018-08-07  7:50   ` arnold
2018-08-07  7:57   ` Bakul Shah
2018-08-07 15:15   ` Brian Zick
2018-08-07 15:52     ` John P. Linderman
2018-08-07 18:09     ` Cág
2018-08-07 18:51       ` arnold
2018-08-07 19:00         ` Cág
2018-08-07 19:06           ` Brian Zick
2018-08-07 12:34 Doug McIlroy
2018-08-08 15:20 Noel Chiappa
2018-08-08 16:01 ` Gilles Gravier
2018-08-08 20:29   ` ron
2018-08-08 20:30   ` Clem Cole
2018-08-08 20:51     ` Warner Losh
2018-08-09  2:50   ` William Corcoran

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