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 -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _otr: 47F43D1A 5D68C36F 468BAEBA 640E8856 D7951CCF _www: http://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/ _jab: [email protected] -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
