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Re: couple of zsh features
- X-seq: zsh-workers 680
- From: schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Barton E. Schaefer)
- To: mliggett@xxxxxxxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: couple of zsh features
- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:02:35 -0800
- In-reply-to: Matt Liggett <mliggett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Re: couple of zsh features" (Dec 7, 12:59pm)
- References: <199512071759.MAA01898@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Reply-to: schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Dec 7, 12:59pm, Matt Liggett wrote:
} Subject: Re: couple of zsh features
}
} At Thu, 7 Dec 1995 09:29:00 -0800, Barton E. Schaefer writes:
} > On Dec 7, 11:31am, Matt Liggett wrote:
} > } 1) Right-hand command prompting.
}
} > I think you ought to think about this a bit longer. Anybody who is
} > that confused about what's a command and what's output shouldn't be
} > driving a shell without supervision.
}
} I can tell what's what, but it could save me the odd 0.75 second here
} or there when I'm scanning up to find the command.
I still think there's got to be a better way than right-justified prompts.
Can you imagine what kind of hoops zle would have to jump through to edit
a single right-justified line that was wider than the screen? What would
you have that look like? Multi-line commands (PROMPT2) would be ghastly,
too, from a readability standpoint if nothing else.
--
Bart Schaefer Vice President, Technology, Z-Code Software
schaefer@xxxxxxxxxx Division of NCD Software Corporation
http://www.well.com/www/barts
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