7 Aug
2018
7 Aug
'18
1:57 p.m.
On Tue, 07 Aug 2018 00:31:36 -0700 Kurt H Maier <khm(a)sciops.net> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 09:53:33PM +0100, Brian Zick
wrote:
The es shell (by Haar and Rakitzis) used ; - the reason (as
per the man page)is that a user can cut-n-paste a previous
line to rexecute it (for the same reason people use term% and
cpu% functions to execute their args). Es syntax was derived
from rc, which may be why the confusion.
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. None of the v8/9/10 tarballs in the archive contain rc code,
but some contain manual source, and those describe % prompts.
I've seen other references to ; (presumably ('; ' ' ')) as the
rc
prompt but I've never seen it in the wild. Does anyone here know what
the story is?