darcs patch: FIX #1378 Add option for a shorter banner on GHCi
startup
Donald Bruce Stewart
dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Fri Jun 1 10:32:00 EDT 2007
ndmitchell:
> Hi
>
> >Regarding the patch itself, I'd rather just kill the current banner and
> >replace
> >it with a shorter banner if we're going to do this. What does everyone
> >else think?
>
> Finally! Precious screen real estate should be used to give useful
> information, not ASCII art branding whose time has come and gone.
> GuiHaskell/WinHaskell have removed the banner from the very beginning.
> They just print out:
>
> Loading GHCi....
> Prelude>
>
> Having the URL of the project home page might be handy, but a logo isn't.
>
> [1] http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/guihaskell/
> [2] http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/winhaskell/
>
> Thanks
$ which ghci
ghci: aliased to ghci -v0
$ ghci
Prelude> 1+2
3
Do we really need a patch for this?
-- Don
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