From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gatech.edu (gatech.edu [130.207.244.244]) by werple.mira.net.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA02422 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 19:34:18 +1000 Received: from math (math.skiles.gatech.edu) by gatech.edu with SMTP id AA02401 (5.65c/Gatech-10.0-IDA for ); Fri, 8 Sep 1995 05:35:40 -0400 Received: by math (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA00371; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 05:28:25 -0400 Resent-Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 10:30:08 +0100 (BST) Old-Return-Path: From: Zefram Message-Id: <20814.199509080930@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Prompt truncation To: esky@CS.UCLA.EDU (Eskandar Ensafi) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 10:30:08 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Z Shell workers mailing list) In-Reply-To: <9509071554.AA15589@marathon.cs.ucla.edu> from "Eskandar Ensafi" at Sep 7, 95 08:54:18 am X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]6256.97 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-Id: <"jEE4c3.0.j5.uo0Km"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/375 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >I would also like to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone for >not having updated the man pages to reflect the prompt truncation feature. >I've started a new job and I've been TERRIBLY busy. > >While we're on the subject, would there be any objection to changing the >format from %[<...] and %[>...] to %<...< and %>...> ? > >Also, there are some subtle bugs in the way truncation occurs w/ respect >to $PARAMETERS and embedded newlines/tabs. I plan on fixing these problems, >but it will take some time. I've submitted patches for all of these matters. See patches 195 and 265. After these patches, both forms of truncation control are accepted, and all sequences that are subject to truncation have control characters displayed neatly. (It's even possible to truncate in the middle of a control character!) -zefram