Re: Setting the readline prompt ...

[Paul Jarc]

address@hidden wrote:
> just a quick question: how can i change the readline
> prompt (after readline is activated).
> I found (set-readline-prompt! prompt . prompt2) in
> 'ice-9 readline'

AFAICT, set-readline-prompt! has no visible effect either in .guile or
in the REPL.

> BTW, i found '(set-repl-prompt! prompt)' which seems to be
> undocumented in the otherwise fine manual. How does this function
> relate to the one from 'ice-9 readline' ?

But this one works for me, even though I use readline.
Experimentation indicates you can use set-repl-prompt! from the REPL
and it will take effect immediately, or you can pass it a thunk which
returns a prompt string.


paul