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Re: Suboptimal bash 1.04 display management

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From: Bill Trost
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1990 22:58
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In article <50243@bbn.COM> pplacewa@antares.bbn.com (Paul W Placeway) writes:
>If you do this, then you get what you desirve: a screwed up prompt.
>If there is enough call for highlighted prompts, I'll proabably go off
>and figure out how to do it reasonably (using symbolic sequences for
>so/se, etc.).

Something in the back of my head is inclined to agree; however, I'd
still like to push for having the prompt display use only the stuff
after the last newline in the prompt for its cursor control.

(Hmm, now something in the back of my head is saying "Well, write it
already".... :-) )
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