Re: Really Long Command Prompt

[Benjamin Lindner]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 26-Jan-2010, Benjamin Lindner wrote:
>
> | IMO there should be some indication of the cwd. Since there's no gui, 
> | and I'm not sure there is a way to indicate it in the console window 
> | title, I've put it in the prompt.
> | It's the default in the standard console prompt on windows, so having it 
> | also in octave kind of follows the default settings.
> | 
> | This is not iron-cast of course, if it annoys everybody else, then I'll 
> | drop it.
>
> I haven't counted precisely how many, but we do see a number of
> complaints about the long prompt, and people seem annoyed and of
> course confused about how to change it since there is no gui button
> for that.  OTOH, I don't seem to ever recall seeing a complaint that
> the default prompt doesn't show the current directory.  

Well, in the binaries I provided the prompt has always included
the cwd, so it's clear no one complained about it /not/ including it :)

> So I think it
> will generate less noise if you undo the customization.  Or, you can
> leave it and every time there is a complaint about the long prompt
> posted to one of the Octave lists we'll forward it to you.  :-)

Now this I call a strong argument :)
Ok, maybe it's a too personal opinion to have cwd in the path by 
default, I'll remove this for 3.2.4, no problem.

Now if anybody complains about it missing, you know ... :)

benjamin