Re: What is the reasoning behind having NOTIFY be on by default?

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:18:04 +0200
"Nikolai Weibull" <now@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What is the reasoning behind having NOTIFY be on by default?

"It's always been that way."

I think it's probably because there's no separate option for
notification when at the command line as opposed to when running a
command, so if you turn off NOTIFY you don't get the message until you
hit return in any case --- even if all that would happen is that the
command line would be redrawn, which is a much more benign effect than
writing over the programme's output.  It ought to be straightforward to
provide ZLE_NOTIFY, I would think.

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