From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: scheme@(guile-user)> considered ugly Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:55:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87wrq14j64.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285974098 31865 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 23:01:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 23:01:38 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 02 01:01:37 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1obf-0005bd-H0 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 01:01:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33077 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1obf-0004Q6-2K for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:01:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57276 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1obN-0004Jn-Jv for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:01:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1oWQ-0004Yr-0v for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:56:11 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49321) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1oWP-0004Yc-Pn for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:56:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1oWJ-0003wX-3I for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:56:03 +0200 Original-Received: from yoda.fdn.fr ([80.67.169.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:56:03 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by yoda.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:56:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yoda.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 11 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vend=E9miaire?= an 219 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zVgIzEzfCDgkYF0Fz7PAoHtvVQk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:10981 Archived-At: Hello! Andy Wingo 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 = ‘[\u@\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’.