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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 13:01:31 -0700
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Comments: In reply to Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
        "Re: get the number of active jobs to show in the prompt?" (Oct  3,  9:34pm)
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Subject: Re: get the number of active jobs to show in the prompt?
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On Oct 3,  9:34pm, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Subject: Re: get the number of active jobs to show in the prompt?
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 17:09:26 +0000, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > } The problem is that push-line seems to send a \n.
> > 
> > Again, that's right.  ZLE doesn't know that you've erased the screen with
> > "clear", so it thinks it has to move down past the current editing area
> > before redrawing the new prompt.
> 
> Why not having another widget that prints a "\r" instead of a "\n"?

It's not the widget that's doing it.  It's the ZLE internal screen refresh
routines.  All the widget does is set a flag telling the internals that the
current line-editing "session" has terminated; the redraw is invoked upon
return to the top of main command input loop.