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Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:02:48 +0100
From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: print to the terminal in zle
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2013-07-27 17:30:55 +0100, Stephane Chazelas:
[...]
> (and yes, there was a reason to write it in such a convoluted
> way, but that was years ago)
[...]

For the curious, details as to why (why zsh -i, why writing the
value in a ZLE widget, why the kill -HUP) are at
http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2007/msg01025.html

Note that that was 6 years ago, there may be cleaner ways to
write it with newer zsh versions.

-- 
Stephane