From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Dieter Bolz <franz.dieter.bolz@gmail.com>
Cc: "zsh-workers@zsh.org" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Zsh line editor backwards delete
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 07:25:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7Z6QfSV-KBJ14wLpmKN26PGm=xpwSBD2jeFYxdxaf2HGA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM9PR02MB73636480A809344E1EBBB27FA0712@AM9PR02MB7363.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 4:49 AM Dieter Bolz <franz.dieter.bolz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When creating a longer line with several words in it:
> and then backspacing (either with just Backspace or Meta-Backspace or the like) the text is actually deleted in the line buffer but there are characters remaining on the screen.
The most likely cause of this is that the display width of characters
in your prompt is not being correctly measured.
What's going on here with the prompt changing?
> db@machine: 1234
> db@machine➜ 1
I suspect you need to adjust your PS1 value to specify a correct
character width for that ➜ glyph. Search for "glitch" in the manual.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-18 15:26 UTC|newest]
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2024-01-18 12:49 Dieter Bolz
2024-01-18 15:25 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2024-01-18 16:08 ` AW: " Dieter Bolz
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