Who changed the prompt to be long and two lines in the first place, and what do they think?
On Monday, October 31, 2011, leif <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31 Okt., 22:13, Martin Albrecht <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 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. > > +1 (Me, too.) > > >> > - 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. > > I use terminal windows of different width (though at least 80 > columns), and hence would prefer a *short* prompt, on a *single* line, > as well. > > >> > It seems nice to have a clear reminder that we're using a subshell > > The Sage subshell prompt will (currently) almost always differ from > the user's default one (even the second line). > > Shortening Sage's and perhaps appending just e.g. "sage>" would IMHO > suffice. > > [And please: No color prompts or the like by default! We could > support SAGE_SHELL_PROMPT or similar, which of course would depend on > the shell, so maybe SAGE_BASH_PROMPT etc. If we had that, I could > live with having some ugly longer prompt by default, i.e., if > SAGE_BASH_PROMPT isn't set.] > > > -leif > > -- > 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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
