guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) (09/30/84)
[Hello everybody in net.misc, I'm back after months of unsubscription. Anybody in for a yellow firetruck debate?] This morning, I changed my shell prompt (Bourne Shell, of course) to ":-) ". Out of curiosity, I'd like to know whether anybody else has had the same idea, and what other "funny" (or tragic, or whatever) prompts people use. If your prompt is still "$" or "%", set your phantasy at work and try to find something more personal, and enter the great prompt contest! If I get enough mail, I'll post a summary of the most original ones soon. (Now I think of it, I should probably set PS2 to ":-( "...) -- Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam guido@mcvax.UUCP "Immorality may be something, but it does not take the place of virtue and three square meals a day."
rpf@ptsfa.UUCP (10/04/84)
> Out of curiosity, I'd like to know whether anybody else has had the same > idea, and what other "funny" (or tragic, or whatever) prompts people use. I kind'a like PS1="^^oo^^" If you're really perverse try PS1="" or PS1="login:"
dre@ptsfa.UUCP (Doug East) (10/04/84)
> Out of curiosity, I'd like to know whether anybody else has had the same > idea, and what other "funny" (or tragic, or whatever) prompts people use. Being brought up on Cyber NOS before becoming a confirmed UNIX user, I learned to like a slash prompt ('/'). Hence, I use the same prompt now. It does seem to confuse a few people because of its similarity to path names and the like but I haven't had any problems, yet. Additionally, PS2 is set to '+'.
gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) (10/07/84)
Or, under Apollo AUX, go for "Error core dumped:" ...
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<<<yum-yum>>> > Out of curiosity, I'd like to know whether anybody else has had the same > idea, and what other "funny" (or tragic, or whatever) prompts people use. I once had a friend who set PS1 to an escape sequence that would draw a little alien with a ray blaster and then fire the weapon by reverse videoing the line twice! Ken Yap (..!{seismo,allegra}!rochester!ken) -- Ken (..!rochester!ken)
wcs@ho95b.UUCP (59576) (10/08/84)
<initial white space to annoy bugs> >I kind'a like PS1="^^oo^^" >If you're really perverse try PS1="" or PS1="login:" My office mate uses " " and works on an HP terminal. This way he can use the ENTER key to resend a line (modified by local editing) and not get complaints about "$: not found". I work on three machines networked by DATAKIT. The default prompts are set to 'A$ ', 'B$ ', & 'C$ '. I use "a: ". I used 'A> ' for a while, which preserves a bit of continuity (my terminal is a PC), but I decided it was ugly. Bill -- Bill Stewart AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ ...!ihnp4!ho95b!wcs You don't usually expect that kind of behavior in a major appliance.
riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (10/12/84)
Some of the grad students around here have the bad habit of forgetting to
log themselves out when they leave the terminal room. One of them once
returned to find that his prompt had been reset to:
CROSS MY HEART, I PROMISE THAT I WON'T LEAVE MYSELF LOGGED IN EVER AGAIN.>
... or something similar. It took him quite a while to figure out what
was going on.
--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
--- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddleajs@hpfcla.UUCP (ajs) (10/12/84)
> My office mate uses " " and works on an HP terminal. This way he can > use the ENTER key to resend a line (modified by local editing) and not > get complaints about "$: not found". This PS1 also works nicely: PS1=":; " It equates to "null command, end of command, next command". Alan Silverstein, hpfcla!ajs
seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert) (10/18/84)
working on a zillion different machines, one tends to put
the machine name into the prompt, such as:
PS1="(`uname`) "
then, create a does-nothing file in your bin such as
(exit 0);
and give the file the same name as your machine. Then the
"enter" key on HP terminals (at least the 2600 series)
works nicely. Though it doesn't get used as much since
I switched to ksh, with the nifto history mechanism.
Still handy for grabbing things off the screen and sticking them
in files, though.
--
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____|___|_____ ihnp4!ihuxl!seifertagd@pucc-i (Gerrit Huizenga III) (10/20/84)
>> Out of curiosity, I'd like to know whether anybody else has had the same >> idea, and what other "funny" (or tragic, or whatever) prompts people use. >I kind'a like PS1="^^oo^^" >If you're really perverse try PS1="" or PS1="login:" If you are going to have PS1="login: ", PS2 *HAS* to be "password: " !! :-) gerrit UUCP: {decvax, ucbvax, allegra}!pur-ee!pucc-i!agd {seismo, harpo, teklabs, ihnp4}!pur-ee!pucc-i!agd
berry@zinfandel.UUCP (12/15/84)
Sometimes, when feeling silly, I use (csh): set prompt='//STEP.\! EXEC PGM=' -- Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900
bing@galbp.UUCP (Bing Bang) (12/21/84)
I use: set prompt= 'A\>' -- ---------- "No, you stupid computer, do what I mean, not what I type!" ...akgua!galbp!bing