Re: terminal resizing and prompt problem

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Nathan Sommer wrote:

> Am I correct in concluding from your reply that it is impossible to have 
> a multi-line zsh prompt and not get any extra lines after resizing a 
> terminal?

It's impossible to have a multi-line value of $PS1 withoug getting extra
lines after resizing.

However, it occurs to me that you can make it look pretty much the same by 
printing the first line yourself in the precmd function and having the 
second line as the value of $PS1.

E.g.

 precmd() { print -rP $'\e[1;32m[%d]\e[0m' }
 PS1=$'%{\e[1;34m%}[%T]%{\e[1;32m%}%%%{\e[0m%} '

Incidentally, I also use fvwm, but I almost never resize a window by 
dragging.  I have a title-bar button using a function for "Maximize 0 100" 
and simply toggle back and forth between having the window be the full 
height of the display, and whatever height it started at.  What's the 
point of mucking around with anything in between?