From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: PATCH: random attribute stuff
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 15:42:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805061442.m46Eg7bN000588@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <080506073442.ZM22499@torch.brasslantern.com>
Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Some people want the entire command line to look one way and the output
> from the command to look another way, so they can easily tell what's a
> command and what isn't when scrolling backward through buffered output.
> Leaving effects turned on after the prompt is the only way to do that;
> at some point it was decided that it was better to have the prompt help
> out with it, than to force people to trick the shell into outputting a
> terminal control sequence without using the prompt escapes.
Right, but I'm not convinced it actually works.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-06 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-06 9:15 Peter Stephenson
2008-05-06 14:34 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-05-06 14:42 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2008-05-06 14:58 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-05-06 15:10 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-05-06 15:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-05-06 15:48 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-05-06 18:16 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-05-07 15:44 ` Oliver Kiddle
2008-05-07 15:49 ` Oliver Kiddle
2008-05-07 15:55 ` Peter Stephenson
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