#4644: No new prompt when doing a ./sage -sh
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 Reporter:  jsp             |       Owner:  was       
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  major           |   Milestone:  sage-4.0.2
Component:  user interface  |    Keywords:            
 Reviewer:                  |      Author:            
   Merged:                  |  
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Comment(by jsp):

 From sage-devel:

 {{{
 William Stein wrote:

 > The justification for the existence of "./sage -sh" is that you can
 > type "exit" to get out of that subshell, and all the Sage environment
 > variables are no longer defined.  Also, on some systems "./sage -sh"
 > changes the prompt as a reminder (it's a bug that it doesn't do this
 > on all systems).
 >
 +1

 This is http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4644
 I opened 6 month ago.

 We have to thank Mike Hansen and Craig Citro for this :)

 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4512

 Mike:
 > Could we at least have a PS1 that includes the current directory? I
 always hated it when I was on a machine where "sage -sh" didn't use my
 existing PS1.

 Craig:
 > Yeah, that would be very reasonable.

 Jaap


 }}}

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