Qedit handles the prompt problem quite nicely:  not only can you set your
own prompt (mine's "(!systemname\!hpaccount\!hpgroup)/"), but upon hitting
enter to redo a command, Qedit strips the prompt from the input string
before processing.

I don't believe that any of the terminals emulated by Reflection actually
'remembers' what the prompt character(s) is(are) - they'd have no way of
knowing what the prompt is!

Tracy Pierce

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denys Beauchemin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 8:00 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Line Modify and Modify All
>
>
> It was pointed out earlier in this thread that while using
> Line Modify, one
> would have to be careful with the initial prompt.  It was
> said that the
> terminal would remember what was prompted and what was typed
> and only send the
> type in stuff.  This was unreliable.  One of the more arcane
> tricks around this
> was to set the "Start column" to a value that would be one
> greater than the
> number of characters emitted by the prompt.  In the olden days of the
> seventies, MPE only issued the ":".  BASIC issued ">".  Of
> course, if you were
> editing a BASIC program you would set the Start column to 1.
>
> I just checked Reflection and sure enough, under Terminal setup, the
> Advanced... button takes you to a window with the start
> column and other
> specifications.  Tres cool, indeed.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Denys. . .
>
> Denys Beauchemin
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