Anthony Scopatz

Hey @mattbowen! Thanks for asking about this. I believe that you can do something like this already. If you take a look at the customizing the prompt part of the...

Hi @t184256 - so prompt-toolkit can re-evaluate the prompt value with every key press. What have this turned off right now because it is expensive to run. We could probably...

Thanks @t184256!

We'd love help with this!

Hey @bobhy - sorry for taking a few days to read this amazingly comprehensive post! I agree that all of these are pretty much long-standing issues that it would great...

> In any case I guess this issue is a pretty opinionated thing if it has been discussed so many times. Yeah, it really is. The fundamental issue is that...

> what if create distinct operator for this? That is what `@$()` was supposed to be :wink: I am in favor or removing syntax at this point, rather than adding....

My main point here is that if we are going to make one subprocess operator modal (ie Python vs Subprocess), it is worth thinking about how all of them should...

In my opinion, `$()` should return a string in both Python & subprocess mode, not a list. The other operators are free to return various other objects

Anyway, on the technical side, the original design was for `$` to indicate that a built-in Python object was returned (str or None), while `!` indicated a more rich object,...