From: nirva@ishiboo.com (Danny Dulai)
To: duke@cyberspaces.de (Christoph Lange), dias-d_l@epita.fr
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk (zsh)
Subject: Re: completion position
Date: 15 Jul 2000 20:57:47 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Liam.963694667.253675.9664.137548785@mergioo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007151810001.371-100000@langec.myip.org>
On 07/15/00, Christoph Lange said:
>> I can't find how to move the completion cursor position :
>> i've always that :
>>
>> shell> cd /usr/<tab> _
>> X11R6/ i486-linuxlibc1/ local/ spool/
>> bin/ include/ man/ src/
>> doc/ info/ sbin/
>> games/ lib/ share/
>
>I had a similar problem when I had some escape codes in my prompt, which set
>the xterm title bar. I think zsh calculates the cursor position depending on
>the length of the prompt. Of course, zsh did not understand that a certain
>part of the text actually appeared in the title bar and not in the command
>line prompt and therefore assumed a wrong length andq set the cursor to a
>wrong position.
from the zshall manpage, under PROMPT EXPANSION:
%{...%}
Include a string as a literal escape sequence. The
string within the braces should not change the cur-
sor position. Brace pairs can nest.
--
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Danny Dulai Feet. Pumice. Lotion.
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2000-07-15 14:13 Mglcel
2000-07-15 16:16 ` Christoph Lange
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