Hello! Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes:
> I'm thinking that our prompt is really ugly. Sure, it's useful to know > what language and module you're in (though you probably know the > language). But I was just going over some docs and the prompt really > makes it hard to read. The interaction transcript went like this: I agree that this example is hard to read. That said, in reality, there’d be some color (hello jao! :-)) and a blinking cursor, which make things much better. Also, FWIW, it’s customary to have $PS1 = ‘...@\h:\w]\$’, which is graphically close to ‘LANG@(MODULE)>’. > But what if we elide the language and deparen the module: > > guile-user> (define abc "hello") Yes, that’s clearer. Still, I had got used to seeing the language name, and it’s probably good marketing-wise (though currently only Scheme works at the REPL, but shh!) So I don’t know. No strong feelings. Another option would be to keep the prompt but use a simpler one in the manual, as is often done with shell transcripts. Thanks, Ludo’.
