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Re: BUG: zsh overwrites last line of output

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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Peter Makholm <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: BUG: zsh overwrites last line of output
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 13:10:51 -0500
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <xnoy9zhszdt.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from "Peter Makholm" on Sun Oct 22 16:51:10 GMT 2000
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In the last episode (Oct 22), Peter Makholm said:
> Try look at the following:
> 
> galar% echo $ZSH_VERSION 
> 3.1.9
> galar% echo -n foo
> galar% echo -n "foo\nbar"
> foo
> galar% 
> 
> Somehow zsh overwrites the last line of output if it doesn't end with
> an new-line. On a (very) slow terminal I've been able to see that the
> "bar" in the last example actually gets written.

Correct;  this is so zle knows exactly where the cursor is.  If you
don't want this behaviour, add "setopt nopromptcr" to one of your
startup scrpits.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx

References:
- BUG: zsh overwrites last line of output
  - From: Peter Makholm

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