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@bsdimp.com> wrote:


On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 1:51 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> 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
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