> Ease of use is a serious issue. This is a Unix-oriented mailing list, but that
> does not mean that we should consider obscurity to be a design goal.
Very true.
> One perfectly legitimate justification for adding a prompt is whether it would
> minimize confusion. People expecting a prompt now are very confused by its
> absence, but would people expecting its absence be confused by its presence?
Probably not.
> We should not turn this into a "secret handshake" where those already in the
> know are the only ones not confused.
Yep.
Anyway, people can stop worrying about this. I have already added a sysop
configurable prompt and made some other small changes to make things look
nice. In the process I did a almost complete rewrite of the command parser
in order to make it more flexible (it's also a bit cleaner now). One can
now even have ansi colors and stuff like that in the prompt if somebody
finds that useful...
The default behaviour is like it used to be, ie. no prompt (or to be more
precise the default prompt is "\n").
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