From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from primenet.com.au (ns1.primenet.com.au [203.24.36.2]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 1015c8a0 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 21:44:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 14330 invoked by alias); 16 Jan 2020 21:44:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: X-Seq: 45314 Received: (qmail 15930 invoked by uid 1010); 16 Jan 2020 21:44:17 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from mail-qt1-f172.google.com by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.102.1/25691. spamassassin: 3.4.2. Clear:RC:0(209.85.160.172):SA:0(-1.8/5.0):. Processed in 3.772296 secs); 16 Jan 2020 21:44:17 -0000 X-Envelope-From: nathanmsidwell@gmail.com X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | Received-SPF: pass (ns1.primenet.com.au: SPF record at _netblocks.google.com designates 209.85.160.172 as permitted sender) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:to:from:subject:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=iOZIrlzvf2k35K6K8NvJf0bNw28gWvFGuYQYqu4o17s=; b=atz7c7q46MfgT6TcWbjdvXAranYPXdP81FZTbRUmOi8WwqHTKPcG9V4FTxk9AAfsO2 1T4bpLxkMmGDSPk9WHSesTkuf/nsaPKffJfSXxHVBWacFQazPDcUB7WiriRAa6w4td9j vWnmhysRckGNTVcxcH9j954FtwKKckEvMO4ckG0F+nePsxzYlAAepRT9i1/Jd1wnumri 5toT1AfCeuffG+C4H9XbS354L1Fqtests0te5iIVF5APfo9BOxNCt/EREX+8kZ80Is5w Zk0y4A0Ua+ZYJq0buAyBPQofEDcIqTlnuLwNA5ZkhuBUjTjtnsSImDmPddY+vjErZhN8 j5OA== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAVsG3OJfCfsgD6EMno9kxmoXZpnGrEBr2j575XGP5SwFfsbCxPa kj0YFCWZ5oNluydH7bzktWE= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqw39uWnANTRzM6F6pgI/1D8KO3qk48CG2GhPHDBhH1Bixw2O9B6/FrHuO+WpwwsWynwR8EWJA== X-Received: by 2002:ac8:8d6:: with SMTP id y22mr4422667qth.85.1579211019421; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:43:39 -0800 (PST) Sender: Nathan Sidwell To: zsh-workers@zsh.org From: Nathan Sidwell Subject: unicode in prompt breaks command search Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:43:37 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit For reasons, I put a multibyte unicode char in $PROMPT, this ends up messing with zsh's idea of the current column, as it doesn't understand the display width of $PROMPT. For example reverse search, here's an example using <9f><85> set PROMPT="🡅" press C-r, see cursor gets indented another 3 spaces -- we're now at column 5, which would be correct if each byte of $PROMPT was a separate display char. A slightly modified example is to enter some text before pressing C-r, then the first 3 chars get retained on the display (but not the input buffer at least). Is this supposed to work? This is ZSH 5.2 on a fedora 30 system, and an XFCE terminal. Let me know if you need more info (I'm not on the list). nathan -- Nathan Sidwell