From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Oliver Kiddle <opk@zsh.org>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Why does zsh clear to end-of-screen after prompt?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:32:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7YrKoZv-eWJ4xG0NRfvthkR2TWwr2xURo8ojipKO3AqJw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23391-1695078881.417127@hXqK.BiYQ.sk8c>
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 4:14 PM Oliver Kiddle <opk@zsh.org> wrote:
>
> [ moved to -workers ]
> On 9 Sep, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> >
> > no_clr_eos () {
> > emulate -L zsh
> > if [[ $1 == cd ]]
> > then
> > REPLY=""
> > elif [[ -n $2 ]]
> > then
> > REPLY=$(echotc "$@")
> > else
> > REPLY=$termcap[$1]
> > fi
> > }
>
> The last 6 lines just restore what would be the default behaviour,
> right?
That is correct. Although if I were writing it for the current dev
revision, I'd probably just use
else REPLY=${ echotc "$@" }
since there'd be no subshell.
> Wouldn't it perhaps be helpful if there was an explicit way to fallback
> to the default such as by returning an error status.
Yes. Or even just by "unset REPLY".
> The feature is
> mostly only used by the test suite to my knowledge.
It's used in X04zlehighlight. I think there was a proposal to use it
in another test as well, but that never got done.
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