Comment by blahgeek

Comment by blahgeek 18 hours ago

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> taking inspiration from command-line interfaces

IMO the take away from command-line interfaces is compact, precise and minimal design. In a transitional shell prompt like #~$, each character has its meaning. Merely copying these symbols to a watch face is the exact opposite spirit of command like interfaces.

goncalomb 16 hours ago

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).

  • 0xDEAFBEAD 4 hours ago

    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.

  • miohtama 16 hours ago

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

    • dotancohen 5 hours ago

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

  • dhosek 10 hours ago

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

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OJFord 11 hours ago

`date +whatever` right arg for the output would also make more sense than `./t` if there's room