Re: [Proposal] Change default _PROMPT from "> " to "> " (two spaces)

[Russell Haley <russ.haley@...>]

Sorry for the top post.

I'm not sure I'm keen on this solution but the cut paste struggle is 'real'. 
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I either loose the first character or have to delete all the extra chevrons. The extra space would mean I have to delete two spaces when I copy one liners. 

If I'm honest the space between the REPL and the first character bugs me too. ‎

My preference would instead consist of  being able to dump the console history for the session or even just the last successful chunk:

Print_last_chunk()
Save_last_chunk(filename)

(The capital letters in the names are my email clients idea).

I'll bet that's already an available pattern.  If I were implementing it I would add a console class that has various facilities only available through interactive mode. 

I expect Steve Donavan to pipe up here and say he's got that written somewhere. I seem to think of things he's already invented. :P 

Russ

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Subject: [Proposal] Change default _PROMPT from "> " to "> " (two spaces)

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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