Re: Really Long Command Prompt

[John W. Eaton]

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.  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.  :-)

jwe