On Monday 31 October 2011, John H Palmieri wrote:
> A quick survey for people who use "sage -sh":
> 
>  - Do you find the current multiline shell prompt useful?

No, I find it rather annoying and ugly actually.
 
>  - Would you prefer that the prompt is shorter, and in particular, a single
> line?

Yes. My shell is very wide, so I have no problem with more stuff on one line.

> At the moment, when you run "sage -sh", it says
> 
>   Starting subshell with Sage environment variables set.
>   Be sure to exit when you are done and do not do anything
>   with other copies of Sage!
> 
>   Bypassing shell configuration files ...
> 
>   SAGE_ROOT=/Applications/sage
>   (sage subshell) jpalmieri538:~ palmieri$
> 
> The last two lines are the shell prompt, and reprint after every command.
> 
> It seems nice to have a clear reminder that we're using a subshell, but can
> we shorten this to one line?  (My votes: no, I don't find it useful, and
> yes, I would prefer that it were shorter.)

Cheers,
Martin

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