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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>,
	Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: several bug fixes in countprompt
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 07:58:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7Zqy-a8ByqmHWKDQ2HS_n4S0ZR0vPaPLerPoc+7X5sQ=g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN=4vMp4+C1GjRLUaptCq-59EjQ7AmWC+BF3-b=nkYDuoJ6wEQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 7:45 AM Roman Perepelitsa
<roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 3. There are two ways terminals
> handle tabs that don't fit on the line.

Sounds as though we should either:
-- document that using a tab character in your prompt is not advisable, or
-- always convert tabs to spaces before emitting the prompt

The latter suffers from a need to understand tab stop positions, which
is going to be ugly no matter how it is approached.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-19 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20190619102623epcas3p27d38284482c5631e0585059dc0b732a6@epcas3p2.samsung.com>
2019-06-19 10:22 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2019-06-19 10:56   ` Peter Stephenson
2019-06-19 14:44     ` Roman Perepelitsa
2019-06-19 14:52       ` Peter Stephenson
2019-06-19 14:58       ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2019-06-19 15:09         ` Roman Perepelitsa

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