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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: A different approach to PROMPT_CR
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 21:47:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E13TVof-00019x-00.2000-08-28-21-47-38@mail6.svr.pol.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ""Bart Schaefer""'s message of "Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:27:00 -0000." <1000826222700.ZM13743@candle.brasslantern.com>

"Bart Schaefer" wrote:
> It might be nice if "read -t -k 0" simply returned 0 if there's pending
> input and 1 otherwise, without reading anything.  Right now, -k 0 is
> treated the same as -k 1 (read always reads at least one byte).

Yes, but I had to make it read a character as a last resort since on cygwin
checking for pending input didn't work.  Somebody will have to find a way
of making this work everywhere.  While there about it, they could also find
a way of making the read time out on all systems, which was the other thing
I tried to do.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk>
Work: pws@csr.com
Web: http://www.pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk


      reply	other threads:[~2000-08-28 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1000826175034.ZM13455@candle.brasslantern.com>
2000-08-26 20:46 ` Zefram
2000-08-26 22:27   ` Bart Schaefer
2000-08-28 20:47     ` Peter Stephenson [this message]

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