Hi Emmanuel,
you can change the ⍞-input prompt but not the immediate execution prompt.
An example (adopted from the IBM APL2 language manual):
* ∇Z←INPUT PROMPT**
**[1] ⍞←PROMPT ◊ Z←⍞**
**[2] ∇**
****
** INPUT 'MY-Prompt: '**
**MY-Prompt: 42**
** 42**
*
Changing the immediate execution is problematic because
it differs in different situations, for example in multi-line input:
* Z←"""**
**→ Line One**
**→ Line Two**
**→ """**
****
** 8 ⎕CR Z**
**┌→────────────────────┐**
**│┌→───────┐ ┌→───────┐│**
**││Line One│ │Line Two││**
**│└────────┘ └────────┘│**
**└ϵ────────────────────┘**
*
Best Regards,
Jürgen
On 6/14/23 21:56, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
Dear list,
Is there a way to change the APL standard prompt (i. e. 6 spaces at
the start of a line) ?
I'd like to develop two interfaces that may, IMHO, improve the
usefulness of APL in today's use :
* A |Jupyter| kernel, allowing its use in Jupyter notebooks,
* An |org-babel| driver, allowing its use in Org documents.
Both are (semi-)trivial to write (thoanks to expect and pexpect),
except for recognition of "end-of-output", which might be eased by
assigning a predetermined random value to the (final) prompt. QuadEB
and Quad-EA come to mind...
Any hint ?
