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Re: PS1 covers output of previous program

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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PS1 covers output of previous program
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:38:37 -0600
In-reply-to: <20000202005616.A1416@xxxxxxxxxx>; from "Michal Kuratczyk" on Wed Feb 2 00:56:16 GMT 2000
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In the last episode (Feb 02), Michal Kuratczyk said:
> Is this bug or feature that PS1 covers the text before?
> 
> ~ % echo -n "foo"
> ~ %
> 
> In bash, tcsh and pdksh the second line would look like this:
> foo~ %

Feature.  It's required so that zsh's enhanced commandline editor works
right.  Without it, zsh doesn't know what column the cursor is on, and
can't set RPROMPT right.  To disable, "setopt nopromptcr".

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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