On 1 Nov., 18:07, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:52 PM, leif <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 1 Nov., 06:15, leif <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 1 Nov., 04:45, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > Who changed the prompt to be long and two lines in the first place, and > >> > what do they think? > > >> Well, it had been a two-line prompt before #9527, but it's also funny > >> who reviewed that... ;-) > > > P.S.: #4644 changed the prompt from a bare "sage$ " to "${PWD}\nsage > > subshell$ ". > > > (To me, the shorter two-line prompt without SAGE_ROOT=... was less > > annoying btw.) > > Following through #4644 the person who proposed this prompt was Mariah > Lenox (and Dan Drake made the actual patch). Dan is for shortening > the prompt. I think Mariah won't care either way at this point.
Having the current working directory in the prompt was certainly an improvement. For SAGE_ROOT, it should IMHO be sufficient to print it once in the start-up message of the subshell. In case one forgets what his/her current Sage installation (the one the subshell was run from) was, he/ she can simply type "echo $SAGE_ROOT". -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
