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Re:./watch by goncalomb on Saturday October 18, 2025 @10:17AM (#45627581)
Cool project, but I also noticed the weird choice of #:~$ as a prompt, it uses almost half the width of the clock screen. And isn't # normally used to denote root shells? I don't think I ever saw it together with $.

My favorite prompt is >: as a callback to the Swan computer in the TV show Lost (not sure if it's also used in early Apple computers).

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Re:./watch by miohtama on Saturday October 18, 2025 @10:51AM (#45627846)
Good news it's an open source project so you can customise your prompt (:
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Re:./watch by dotancohen on Saturday October 18, 2025 @10:09PM (#45631638)
Brought to you by the "it's configurable, so we don't need sane defaults" crowd.
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Re:./watch by cinntaile on Sunday October 19, 2025 @04:00AM (#45632679)
It's a watch, not a new shell implementation. It looks enough like a shell imo.
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Re:./watch by dhosek on Saturday October 18, 2025 @04:30PM (#45630143)
If I remember right, > was the prompt for Integer basic, ] for Applesoft Basic and * for the monitor.
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Re:./watch by Angostura on Saturday October 18, 2025 @06:10PM (#45630693)
Yup.

3D0G to start basic from the Monitor

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Re:./watch by 0xDEAFBEAD on Saturday October 18, 2025 @10:36PM (#45631731)
A prompt including > can be dangerous since that character also does shell output redirection. A sloppy copy/paste could, in theory, overwrite an important file.
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Re:./watch by swiftcoder on Sunday October 19, 2025 @03:53AM (#45632657)
The usually trick here is to use a unicode character like ⟫ (U+27EB) instead, which looks basically the same, but isn't interpreted as a redirection by the shell
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