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Agreed, including the ">_" prompt in the command line isn't really helpful. The copy icon works, it's extra unnecessary cognitive overhead. Also, ">_" is an u
by loudmax 6y ago
Agreed, including the ">_" prompt in the command line isn't really helpful. The copy icon works, it's extra unnecessary cognitive overhead. Also, ">_" is an unusual prompt, I don't know what distro ships with that by default.
- LukeShu 6y ago">" is the prompt on MS-DOS, and "_" is the cursor. Somehow this has resulted in ">" or ">_" being the terminal "icon" even in unixy parts of the world; looking at the generic "utilities-terminal" icon: the default theme for Gnome 3 ("Adwaita") uses ">_" in the icon, the default theme for KDE ("Breeze") uses ">", and the runner-up ("Oxygen", which also comes bundled with KDE), also uses ">_".
- scarmig 6y agoAlso, the SSH app on Chromebooks.
- marcosdumay 6y agoThat's unfortunate, because on Linux the shells tend to use ">" for a continuation prompt, where you can not enter complete commands.