Re: get the number of active jobs to show in the prompt?

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 3,  9:34pm, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Subject: Re: get the number of active jobs to show in the prompt?
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 17:09:26 +0000, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > } The problem is that push-line seems to send a \n.
> > 
> > Again, that's right.  ZLE doesn't know that you've erased the screen with
> > "clear", so it thinks it has to move down past the current editing area
> > before redrawing the new prompt.
> 
> Why not having another widget that prints a "\r" instead of a "\n"?

It's not the widget that's doing it.  It's the ZLE internal screen refresh
routines.  All the widget does is set a flag telling the internals that the
current line-editing "session" has terminated; the redraw is invoked upon
return to the top of main command input loop.