19 Apr
2017
19 Apr
'17
6:59 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:31:53AM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote:
On 04/18/2017 06:50 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
Ah, thanks for explaining "snarf-and-barf"... I did a fast forward at
that point. Sorry Lyndon...
Is this a reason why "#" was chosen as the root prompt, by the way?
POSIX mentions that "a sufficiently powerful user should be reminded of
that power by having an alternate prompt" but says little else...
What's cool about ':' vs.
'#' is:
...
Stick that in your .env and you get a
snarf-and-barf'able shell
prompt that evals as a noop. Blatantly ripped off from plan9port
IIRC. I run this across all manner of *BSD and Solaris and Linux and
it just works.
I think you're effectively doing the same thing that I'm doing by having my
prompt start with '#', thus turning copy & paste ""errors into
pasting
comments. Just a difference of a '#' comment character and a ':'
label.
I see little difference between ':' and '#' in this case.
Please help me understand if I'm wrong.
--
Grant. . . .
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