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

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From: Budi <budikusasi@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Zsh can't do "echo -n" preceding vared <variable>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 06:00:50 +0700
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vared -p BEGINNING var

works like a charm

THANKS SO MUCH!

On 8/17/23, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

References:
- Zsh can't do "echo -n" preceding vared <variable>
  - From: Budi
- Re: Zsh can't do "echo -n" preceding vared <variable>
  - From: Peter Stephenson
- Re: Zsh can't do "echo -n" preceding vared <variable>
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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