7 Aug
2018
7 Aug
'18
1:50 p.m.
Kurt H Maier <khm(a)sciops.net> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 09:53:33PM +0100, Brian Zick
wrote:
I believe that Tom Duff's rc does indeed use ('% ' ' '). But I
think that
Byron Rakitsis's version changed the default to ('; ' ' ')
exactly for
the reason that it's copyable/pastable.
HTH,
Arnold
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?
khm