[COFF] Comparative promptology

[John P. Linderman]

A bit off-off-topic, but as I mentioned elsewhere, I was lucky enough to
have one of the (if not *the*) first CRT terminals in the Labs. It was an
HP 264?, and it supported scrolling back to stored lines, and re-entering
them. I quickly settled in on a prompt that ended with "@", the default
"line kill", so whatever came before was ignored, and only the command that
followed was effectively re-entered. Quaint that "@" was a seldom-seen
character then.

I now have a prompt that ends with a newline. Still convenient for
copy/paste. The prompt itself has colors, separating host name from current
directory. This makes it easy to spot non-prompt line in the command line
history, and to determine which host I am connected to in that window, and
where I am on that host.


On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 3:57 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 1:51 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
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>> Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> > Steve Nickolas wrote:
>> >> 86-DOS actually did use ":" as a prompt character.
>> > The best I've ever seen was RT-11's "." - talk about minimalist...
>> >
>> > Actually this thread probably belongs on COFF by now.
>>
>> I was bound to happen.  List all the prompts!
>>
>> "*" seems popular on PDP-10s.
>>
>
> "@  " was the TOPS-20 prompt.
> "$ " was the VMS prompt
> RSTS/E was just "Ready\n"
>
> But none of these get us closer to CP/M's > prompt.
>
> Warner
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