Re: Really Long Command Prompt

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Jan-2010, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

| Hello
| 
| The setting default prompt of octave/mingw32 at the octave-forge site is 
intentional.
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| In octave-home/share/octave/version/m/startup/octaverc 
| 
| ## set default prompt
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| PS1("\\s:\\#:\\w\n> ");
| 
| The above setting is done by Benjamin.

This choice seems to generate a lot of questions since it typically
results in a long prompt.

Why not use the default setting?

jwe