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goncalomb | 4 months ago

Cool project, but I also noticed the weird choice of #:~$ as a prompt, it uses almost half the width of the clock screen. And isn't # normally used to denote root shells? I don't think I ever saw it together with $.

My favorite prompt is >: as a callback to the Swan computer in the TV show Lost (not sure if it's also used in early Apple computers).

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0xDEAFBEAD|4 months ago

A prompt including > can be dangerous since that character also does shell output redirection. A sloppy copy/paste could, in theory, overwrite an important file.

swiftcoder|4 months ago

The usually trick here is to use a unicode character like ⟫ (U+27EB) instead, which looks basically the same, but isn't interpreted as a redirection by the shell

miohtama|4 months ago

Good news it's an open source project so you can customise your prompt (:

dotancohen|4 months ago

Brought to you by the "it's configurable, so we don't need sane defaults" crowd.

dhosek|4 months ago

If I remember right, > was the prompt for Integer basic, ] for Applesoft Basic and * for the monitor.

Angostura|4 months ago

Yup.

3D0G to start basic from the Monitor