This One Time, at Band Camp, Andrey Borzenkov said, On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:56:25AM +0300: > On Saturday 16 February 2008, Peter Stephenson wrote: > > How about the following tweak to prompts to support this? The upshot is > > that you include any funny characters in %{...%G%} where the %G for > > `glitch' (which may be repeated or take a numeric argument) indicates a > > screen cell taken up by the sequence. > Yes, I was about to try the same today morning (you have to sleep on it); > but I likely would not end up with such elegant solution. > > I like this because it uses > > facilities that have been present in the shell for a long time and hence > > was trivial to implement and might work. > > I played with this in simple cases, but would anybody like to confirm > > this works in the cases that matter (and maybe produce an updated Phil's > > Prompt)? > I confirm that this works and updated prompt is attached. Wael, does it work > for you with this patch applied? > Now downside of course is, it works only with patched shell ... > > To put it another way: I am happy to support this fix but > > have no interest in doing anything with it myself. > > I think this is clean and useful enough that I will commit it anyway. OMG it finally works... Thank you so much guys, thanks a lot Peter... BTW don't Cc to me anymore, I've switched my subscription from -users to -workers Thanks again... I use it daily so if anything's wrong I'll notify you... -- Wael Nasreddine http://wael.nasreddine.com PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 .: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs, would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :.