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Re: PATCH: several bug fixes in countprompt



On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 7:45 AM Roman Perepelitsa
<roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 3. There are two ways terminals
> handle tabs that don't fit on the line.

Sounds as though we should either:
-- document that using a tab character in your prompt is not advisable, or
-- always convert tabs to spaces before emitting the prompt

The latter suffers from a need to understand tab stop positions, which
is going to be ugly no matter how it is approached.



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