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thaumasiotes on Aug 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Lin...

> Its two modes (shell mode and python mode), never quite knowing which one you're in, I could never quite get used to that.

Drive-by armchair comment: it seems like the obvious answer would be to change the prompt depending on what mode you're in?

fnj on Aug 19, 2016 [–]

I find this criticism of xonsh's "modes" baffling. Xonsh is brilliant precisely because it isn't modal the way, e.g., vi is.

Xonsh lets you freely mix python code and command invocations in a highly transparent way.

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