From: Chet Ramey <chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu>
To: d0asta@dtek.chalmers.se
Cc: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: Re: fn prompt and readline
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 15:15:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9110012015.AA20546.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from d0asta@dtek.chalmers.se of Sun, 29 Sep 1991 11:28:14 -0500
> If i define...
>
> fn prompt {echo -n $HOSTNAME^'$'}
> prompt=''
>
> ...I get...
>
> <machine>$
>
> ...for prompt.
> The Problem:
> Using readline to step back in history, the prompt disappears after
> a few steps. Is this a bug in readline or rc? What can I do to avoid it?
readline is called as readline(prompt_string) so that moving backwards and
forwards in the history will end up redrawing the screen to look right.
In your case, readline is being called with a null prompt, so nothing is
printed.
(Forgive me, I don't know the rc syntax very well, but wouldn't this or
something like it work?
p1=`{echo -n $HOSTNAME^'$'}
p2=';'
prompt=( $p1^' ' $p2^' ' )
I'd better quit before I get confused...)
Chet
--
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1991-10-01 20:15 Chet Ramey [this message]
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1991-10-02 0:54 Palmer Davis
1991-09-29 16:28 d0asta
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