Re: Why does zsh clear to end-of-screen after prompt?

[Grant Taylor <gtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/27/23 3:34 AM, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> An alternative solution is to embed the info in PROMPT. In order to
> avoid wasting 20 lines of the TTY real estate on each command, you can
> automatically contract the prompt before executing each command. Thus,
> if you run `pwd` twice in a row, your TTY might look like this:
>
>      me@box ~ % pwd
>      /home/me
>      me@box ~ % pwd
>      /home/me
>
>      foo=bar
>      baz=qux
>      me@box ~ % █
>
> In this approach the extra info ("foo=bar", etc.) is always displayed
> right above the current prompt. This is basically Transient Prompt
> from Powerlevel10k
> (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k-media/master/transient-prompt.gif)
> but with a fatter prompt.

This looks like it might do something I've been contemplating doing. 
Having a prompt that is multiple lines but not taking up that screen 
real estate in history.

I need to reverse engineer this and adapt it to what I want to do.

I'd simply like a multi-line prompt that includes:
 - A separation line from the rest of the screen, blank or repeating 
sequence is fine.
 - A line that includes path and similar things.
 - The actual command entry line.

I already have transient RPROMPT.

Time to read & understand what is happening.  :-)



Grant. . . .