Re: Geoff's prompt escape sequences patch (workers/23924)

["Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com>]

On 17/11/2007, Geoff Wing <gcw@zsh.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 2007-11-17 03:46 +1100, Bart Schaefer output:
> :On Nov 16,  3:57pm, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> :} Subject: Re: Geoff's prompt escape sequences patch (workers/23924)
> :} I've found another problem that seems to be caused by this patch
> :} (located by git-bisect). When a bg'd job finishes, the cursor is drawn
> :} in the wrong place in the new prompt (#bar characters to the left).
> :
> :It would appear that the starting position for the right prompt is not
> :being recomputed correctly.  It's not just that the cursor is moved
> :left; RPS1 still begins at the same column even though it is shorter,
> :so it doesn't reach all the way to the margin.
> :The cursor positioning error is probably only apparent when the number
> :of bytes in the terminfo "move left N" string is less than the number
> :in "move to position X,Y".
>
> Yes, my fault.  reexpandprompt() needs to happen before resetvideo()
> which uses the prompt sizes.
>
> :The effect is more obvious if you change to RPS1="%(1j.bar.)foo"
>
> I'll think this through properly a bit later (in a couple of days
> or so), though I currently think this fixes it.

It works here, thanks.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson