29 Oct
2019
29 Oct
'19
2:29 a.m.
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 <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 1:51 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> wrote:
Dave Horsfall wrote:
"@ " 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
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Steve Nickolas wrote:
I was bound to happen. List all the prompts!
"*" seems popular on PDP-10s.
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.