Re: PATCH: random attribute stuff

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> } It ought to be (but might turn out not to be) fairly easy to add a
> } "default" element to zle_highlight that causes the given attributes to
> } be used as the default set for the command line, which would probably
> } work a lot better, and then deprecate any reliance on what the prompt
> } happened to produce.
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me, but could get ugly if a widget were to change
> it on the fly -- do you trap that and reprint the entire buffer, or do
> you allow blotches of different attributes as areas are selectively
> repainted, or do you make that setting read-only in widgets?

It's likely to be implement in zle_refresh.c, so the answer is probably
that it changes at the next refresh, which I think ought to work OK.

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