Re: Prompt redrawing issues with wrapped prompt on SIGWINCH

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 12:56 AM, Daniel Hahler
<genml+zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I am seeing weird redrawing issues when resizing the terminal window with the prompt at the bottom, and the prompt needs to be rewrapped.
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> TEST CASE:
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> 1. zsh -f
> 2. setopt promptsubst
> 3. PS1="\${(pl:\$((\$COLUMNS))::=:)} %# "
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> Now fill the terminal window, e.g. with "ls", so that the prompt gets displayed at the bottom.
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> When resizing the terminal window now, Zsh does not redraw itself properly: the prompt will moves upwards, overwriting output from "ls".
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> This also happens with a static PS1, when the window gets too narrow:
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> PS1="===================================== %# "
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> There is no clear pattern in what goes wrong. With my prompt it will also duplicate the first part of it, and it seems to make a difference if the first line is "full" before the linebreak.

Urxvt reflows long lines on resize and obviously this happens before
zsh gets a chance to redraw the prompt. I don't know if there's any
possible way zle can know how the cursor moved because of this, and
especially difficult is to know how much the display scrolled.

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Mikael Magnusson