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Re: shouldn't prompt printing be smarter?


From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: shouldn't prompt printing be smarter?
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:29:07 -0400
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Francesco Montorsi <f18m_cpp217828@yahoo.it> wrote:
> why would you ever want to have the prompt printed at non-zero column of 
> the terminal?

One possible reason: so you can know whether the previous command
ended its output with a newline.  Otherwise the output becomes
slightly ambiguous.

>> If you want the shell to always add an extra newline then you can
>> always add one to your PS1 setting.
>
> unfortunately in that way I suppose the terminal would then show:
>
> frm@ubuntu:~$ echo hello world
> hello world
>
> frm@ubuntu:~$

Yes.  This always puts the prompt at the beginning of the line, and
still lets you distinguish newline-terminated output from unterminated
output.


paul




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