From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: ticking clock
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 14:21:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c13aae7-ddd8-8f2f-a818-f38dba14150f@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7aAP0Ko+K1fzH7m_4nADXbXJoMeyMaODzah32Q=OhqcDw@mail.gmail.com>
On 14/08/18 10:27 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>> So no way to have it tick only when it's idle, and never force a scroll?
> The terminal emulator doesn't "inform" the shell when you scroll back,
> so there's no way for the shell to know that it should stop sending
> output.
Right , so the prompt doesn't even know if it's visible. And I can see
that it's no small thing for the shell to try to convince the terminal
not to detect that it's been written to in some particular situation.
> Some emulators have "scroll to bottom on tty input" as well as (or
> instead of) "on tty output" -- if possible with your emulator, you
> could try enabling only the former.
Sure. There's little practical difficulty, I'm mostly interested in the
theory of the thing. Thanks Bart.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-14 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-13 13:49 separating functions, fpath, and autoload TJ Luoma
2018-08-13 13:55 ` TJ Luoma
2018-08-13 13:56 ` Pier Paolo Grassi
2018-08-13 14:31 ` Daniel Shahaf
2018-08-13 15:38 ` ticking clock Ray Andrews
2018-08-13 16:29 ` Vin Shelton
2018-08-13 19:57 ` Ray Andrews
2018-08-13 21:54 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-08-13 22:45 ` Ray Andrews
2018-08-14 17:27 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-08-14 21:21 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2018-08-14 10:07 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
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