Quoting Thomas Klausner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi!
>
> As we all want the site to go live ASAP, we should try to decide what to
> use
> as a root/user prompt, so we can than change all the occurences to the new
> form.
>
> Please feel free to add ideas and +/- to each idea...
>
> 1) No prompt at all
> + copy and past
> - no difference between user/root
> - copy and past might not work with long lines
> - doesn't look like a prompt
>
> 2) only use '%' and something for root ('>' ?)
> + '%' is used in most of the docs
> - '#' looks like a comment and thus cannot be used
> - other sigils than '#' might be confusing
>
> 3) "ai" plus % or #
> + looks like a prompt
> - 'ai' might be confusing (use other short hostnames?)
>
> 4) 'user%' and 'root#' (or 'user%' and 'root%')
> + looks like a prompt
> - 'user' isn't to clear ('stas' might be too specific ...
> maybe 'you%' ?
>
> 5) '%' and 'root#'
> + looks like a prompt
> + '%' is short
> + 'root#' is very explicit and clear.
>
>
> 6) ??
>
> I like 5) best.
+1 [option 5]
> I guess everything we'll choose will be confusing for some users (e.g.
> windows user might expect 'C:\>' or something)
>
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