7 Aug
2018
7 Aug
'18
9:52 p.m.
On vacation, with just an iPad keyboard, so I apologize for not doing more
digging. As I noted, when taking the blame for the Great Echo Schism, my
early exposure to a hp2640 terminal that allowed “rentry” of a previous
command was partly to blame. It also led me to use a PS1 ending in @, the
default line-kill. When I reentered a command, the @ wiped out the prompt
stuff, and only the command survived.
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 10:15 AM Brian Zick <brian(a)zick.io> wrote:
In NetBSD 7 the default is ';', but I don't see any reference to a
default
$prompt in the manual on that system. I wonder if this was a change unique
to Berkeley.
B
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.