[sage-devel] The sage -sh shell prompt: any objections to shortening it?

2011-10-31 Thread John H Palmieri
A quick survey for people who use sage -sh: - Do you find the current multiline shell prompt useful? - Would you prefer that the prompt is shorter, and in particular, a single line? At the moment, when you run sage -sh, it says Starting subshell with Sage environment variables set. Be

Re: [sage-devel] The sage -sh shell prompt: any objections to shortening it?

2011-10-31 Thread Martin Albrecht
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.

Re: [sage-devel] The sage -sh shell prompt: any objections to shortening it?

2011-10-31 Thread Dan Drake
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 at 01:45PM -0700, John H Palmieri wrote: A quick survey for people who use sage -sh: - Do you find the current multiline shell prompt useful? - Would you prefer that the prompt is shorter, and in particular, a single line? It looks like I'm on the short end of this,

Re: [sage-devel] The sage -sh shell prompt: any objections to shortening it?

2011-10-31 Thread William Stein
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 not.rea...@online.de wrote: On 31 Okt., 22:13, Martin Albrecht martinralbre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Monday 31 October 2011, John H Palmieri wrote: A quick survey