From: Ben Klein <robobenklein@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>,
Christian K <syphdias@gmail.com>, Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Automate keypresses
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 16:09:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC8p+dW3yGJ_0c3KgRYGp_6aVoD+dbHuLsB=gtdmptFbOA2P-A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9962ac48-b31d-4a80-be61-52f1f60ad3af@www.fastmail.com>
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I think the real issue here is that such input would need to also execute
the precmd and other shell hooks as if a human were physically pressing
enter.
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On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 1:56 PM Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
wrote:
> Christian K wrote on Sat, 30 Mar 2019 16:49 +00:00:
> > I'm trying to automate a benchmark for prompt render times with
> > https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-prompt-benchmark. This requires a pressed
> > Enter key to work.
> >
> > Is there a way so simulate key presses without using something like
> expect?
> > Ideally this would also work in something like travis.
>
> Do you mean this? —
>
> $ { echo PS1=foo; echo exit } | zsh -ifs
> bar% %
> foo %
> $
>
> (Those percent signs are from the PROMPT_SP option)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-30 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-30 16:47 Christian K
2019-03-30 17:55 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-03-30 20:09 ` Ben Klein [this message]
2019-03-30 22:07 ` Ben Klein
2019-03-30 20:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2019-03-30 21:59 ` scowles ckhb.org
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