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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).



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.


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


Good news it's an open source project so you can customise your prompt (:


Brought to you by the "it's configurable, so we don't need sane defaults" crowd.


It's a watch, not a new shell implementation. It looks enough like a shell imo.


If I remember right, > was the prompt for Integer basic, ] for Applesoft Basic and * for the monitor.


Yup.

3D0G to start basic from the Monitor




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