Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!reed!trost From: trost@reed.bitnet (Bill Trost) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Suboptimal bash 1.04 display management Message-ID: <13816@reed.UUCP> Date: 2 Jan 90 22:58:31 GMT References: <50243@bbn.COM> Sender: news@reed.UUCP Distribution: gnu Lines: 14 In article <50243@bbn.COM> pplacewa@antares.bbn.com (Paul W Placeway) writes: >If you do this, then you get what you desirve: a screwed up prompt. >If there is enough call for highlighted prompts, I'll proabably go off >and figure out how to do it reasonably (using symbolic sequences for >so/se, etc.). Something in the back of my head is inclined to agree; however, I'd still like to push for having the prompt display use only the stuff after the last newline in the prompt for its cursor control. (Hmm, now something in the back of my head is saying "Well, write it already".... :-) ) --- trost%reed@tektronix.tek.com