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From: Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: New Zsh Logo
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:25:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35a5c9d0-6849-08d6-6a48-03c5c9cf6195@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+rB6GKJKRma4t+AFE_DeztRP4uVUjfwMwagnV2-5rB_Zzgvhg@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/14/22 08:22, Jim wrote:

> FWIW if not to be to nit picky myself, why '%'? Historically '%' was the default
> csh prompt.  Whereas '$' was the Bourne shell default for users.  '>' was the
> default secondary prompt(not just a dos prompt). Zsh is more Bourne then csh.
> In reality prompt can be set to almost anything.


The first unix shell, the thompson shell used %; the PWB/Mashey shell also used %,
a few others including csh used %. bourne was the one that arbitrarily used $ and
i doubt much thought was put into it.

Since i am here though, i like v3 even more so with a monospace font.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-16  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <dcd6d3b4f2260bd18c49a20a65721b088df9e837.camel@ntlworld.com>
2022-01-12 20:02 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-01-12 21:59   ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-01-12 22:05     ` Bart Schaefer
2022-01-12 22:34       ` Mike Brown
2022-01-12 22:41         ` Clinton Bunch
2022-01-13  0:14     ` Axel Beckert
2022-01-12 22:31   ` Danek Duvall
2022-01-12 22:46     ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-01-13  0:18       ` Jérémie Roquet
2022-01-14  5:30   ` Matthew Martin
2022-01-14 13:22     ` Jim
2022-01-14 16:19       ` Greg Klanderman
2022-01-16  5:25       ` Eric Cook [this message]
2022-01-14 19:42   ` dana
2022-01-15 17:35   ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-01-29  9:18     ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-01-29 19:21       ` Justin Dorfman
2022-02-01 22:01       ` Danek Duvall
2022-02-01 23:13         ` Robert Posey

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