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Re: Zsh can't do "echo -n" preceding vared <variable>

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Budi <budikusasi@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Zsh can't do "echo -n" preceding vared <variable>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 08:20:24 -0700
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 8:13 AM Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> What you can do is use "vared -p prompt" to output something at the
> start of the line, which doesn't have that problem as vared knows
> it's there.

More generally, a key difference from bash+readline is that ZLE
manages the prompts as well as the input.

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