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Zsh clears prompt line. Feature or bug?

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From: Joel Kaasinen <joel.kaasinen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Zsh clears prompt line. Feature or bug?
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 21:59:35 +0300
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Reply-to: Joel Kaasinen <joel.kaasinen@xxxxxxxxx>

I changed form bash to zsh some time ago and it's been a pleasure to
use zsh. Except for one thing that irks me: Zsh clears the contents of
the line the prompt gets printed on. An example:

% echo -n "foo"
%

Bash handles this (IMO) more gracefully:

$ echo -n "foo"
foo$

The question is: can I turn this off in zsh? Is it a feature or a bug?

Regards,
Joel

PS. Please CC a response to my address, joel.kaasinen __at__
gmail.com, I haven't subscribed yet.

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