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Hi! As you may or may not know, Lua uses _PROMPT and _PROMPT2 in the standard REPL (indeed, it's described in the reference manual).

Their default values, e.g. when unset, are "> " and ">> ". There are some reasons why this isn't good:

1. Terminals have block selection mode (hold control while selecting). The different widths makes this difficult.
2. That's about the only reason.

I propose we change this so the default/fallback _PROMPT and _PROMPT2 are ">  " and ">> " respectively, i.e. they have the same width by default. This would work really well with block selection.

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