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Thu, 18 Jan 2024 07:25:38 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Bart Schaefer Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 07:25:26 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Zsh line editor backwards delete To: Dieter Bolz Cc: "zsh-workers@zsh.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Seq: 52485 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-workers@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-workers-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-workers-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 4:49=E2=80=AFAM Dieter Bolz 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 charac= ters 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=E2=9E=9C 1 I suspect you need to adjust your PS1 value to specify a correct character width for that =E2=9E=9C glyph. Search for "glitch" in the manua= l.