Re: Usage of _PROMPT and _PROMPT2

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 6:49 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
>> <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> > We have considered removing this feature, as it seems that very few
>> > people use it (even less now, as it is not documented :-) and its
>> > benefits to the language seem quite small (if any). But in the end
>> > we did not reach a final decision and so it was left as it is now
>> > (implemented but not documented).
>>
>> I use it via LUA_INIT, to mimic the Python interactive prompts ('>>> '
>> and '... '). For me, it's simply personal preference.
>>
>
> I use it as well:
>
> _PROMPT = "\027[38;5;10m; \027[0m"
> _PROMPT2 = "\027[38;5;10m;; \027[0m"
>
> That turns the prompt into a coloured semicolon, which is handy when I want
> to copy and paste several lines for testing, since the semicolon does
> nothing, whereas the standard prompt causes a syntax error.
>
> --
> Sent from my Game Boy.

Who remembers having ] as a prompt character?

/s/ Adam