From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5389 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2006 16:27:58 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO,HTML_40_50,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 2 Feb 2006 16:27:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 77587 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2006 16:27:53 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 2 Feb 2006 16:27:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 17010 invoked by alias); 2 Feb 2006 16:27:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 22186 Received: (qmail 16981 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2006 16:27:48 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 2 Feb 2006 16:27:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 77395 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2006 16:27:48 -0000 Received: from mailgw2.technion.ac.il (132.68.238.33) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 2 Feb 2006 16:27:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailgw2.technion.ac.il (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039943901D3 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:27:45 +0200 (IST) Received: from mailgw2.technion.ac.il ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailgw2.technion.ac.il [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23146-01-25 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:27:44 +0200 (IST) Received: from leeor.math.technion.ac.il (leeor.math.technion.ac.il [132.68.115.2]) by mailgw2.technion.ac.il (Postfix) with ESMTP id 881BF39021C for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:27:44 +0200 (IST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by leeor.math.technion.ac.il (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k12GRchp018849; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:27:38 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <43E232FA.2090706@math.technion.ac.il> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:27:38 +0200 From: "Zvi Har'El" Organization: Technion--Israel Institute of Technology User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bart Schaefer CC: Zsh hackers list Subject: Re: [4.3 CVS] funny output with multibyte References: <19c433eb0602020108k51d5a9abscece73c96079bec5@mail.gmail.com> <43E1FDDC.3020306@math.technion.ac.il> <1060202155816.ZM11505@candle.brasslantern.com> In-Reply-To: <1060202155816.ZM11505@candle.brasslantern.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------060405030005050408020900" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at technion.ac.il This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060405030005050408020900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks. This makes a lot of sense. Bart Schaefer wrote, On 02/02/2006 05:58 PM: > On Feb 2, 2:41pm, Zvi Har'El wrote: > } > } The explanation explains everything, except the percent sign. BTW, > } In my case, I see a reverse-video percent sign printed. What does it > } mean? > > It means "this was the end of the output before the prompt was printed." > It's so that you can tell it was the shell that took over at that point, > rather than that some other process output something it wasn't meant to. > -- Dr. Zvi Har'El mailto:rl@math.technion.ac.il Department of Mathematics tel:+972-54-4227607 icq:179294841 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology fax:+972-4-8293388 http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/ Haifa 32000, ISRAEL "If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all." -- Thumper (1942) --------------060405030005050408020900 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Thanks. This makes a lot of sense.

Bart Schaefer wrote, On 02/02/2006 05:58 PM:

On Feb 2,  2:41pm, Zvi Har'El wrote:
}
} The explanation explains everything, except the percent sign. BTW,
} In my case, I see a reverse-video percent sign printed. What does it
} mean?

It means "this was the end of the output before the prompt was printed."
It's so that you can tell it was the shell that took over at that point,
rather than that some other process output something it wasn't meant to.
  

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Dr. Zvi Har'El      mailto:rl@math.technion.ac.il    Department of Mathematics
tel:+972-54-4227607 icq:179294841    Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
fax:+972-4-8293388  http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/    Haifa 32000, ISRAEL
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