Re: Live Clock Causes Directory Flashing In URxvt & XTerm

[S M <themolesbox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Frank & Bart,

Thank you Bart, I've been able to get it better by making the time
increase, but I'll try out the titlebar too.

Frank I'm new to zsh and this is config from the distro livarp that is dead
now that I copied from.

At this point in time I'm still clueless with a lot of it.

If it's not to much trouble can you please show me how you'd correct this
keys section for any problems?
I got a little of what you said before Frank, but don't quite fully
understand?


# keys -----------------------------------------------------------------
typeset -A key
key[Home]=${terminfo[khome]}
key[End]=${terminfo[kend]}
key[Insert]=${terminfo[kich1]}
key[Delete]=${terminfo[kdch1]}
key[Up]=${terminfo[kcuu1]}
key[Down]=${terminfo[kcud1]}
key[Left]=${terminfo[kcub1]}
key[Right]=${terminfo[kcuf1]}
key[PageUp]=${terminfo[kpp]}
key[PageDown]=${terminfo[knp]}
# setup key accordingly
[[ -n "${key[Home]}"    ]]  && bindkey  "${key[Home]}"    beginning-of-line
[[ -n "${key[End]}"     ]]  && bindkey  "${key[End]}"     end-of-line
[[ -n "${key[Insert]}"  ]]  && bindkey  "${key[Insert]}"  overwrite-mode
[[ -n "${key[Delete]}"  ]]  && bindkey  "${key[Delete]}"  delete-char
[[ -n "${key[Up]}"      ]]  && bindkey  "${key[Up]}"      up-line-or-history
[[ -n "${key[Down]}"    ]]  && bindkey  "${key[Down]}"
down-line-or-history
[[ -n "${key[Left]}"    ]]  && bindkey  "${key[Left]}"    backward-char
[[ -n "${key[Right]}"   ]]  && bindkey  "${key[Right]}"   forward-char


Thank you both again...

Cheers


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Jun 9,  2:50am, S M wrote:
> }
> } So as example, 'cd /etc/' then tap tab to see the directory, try this in
> a
> } directory with a small amount of directories, or open the term full
> screen
> } to see a huge directory, but play with it, and at that point the terminal
> } starts flashing.
>
> This is happening because the completion list gets erased and redrawn each
> time there is a 'zle reset-prompt' call.  This in turn happens because
> zle doesn't know whether the prompt changed size (new number of lines,
> etc.) since the last time it was repainted, and the completion listing
> code is a pluggable module that doesn't know what else zle may have done,
> so the only way they can collectively be sure to keep a clean display is
> to do a full refresh.
>
> Consider putting the live clock in your terminal title bar instead of in
> the prompt, or update it less than once per second as you've already
> tried.
>