Paul Jarc ha scritto:
Francesco Montorsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
why would you ever want to have the prompt printed at non-zero column of
the terminal?
One possible reason: so you can know whether the previous command
ended its output with a newline. Otherwise the output becomes
slightly ambiguous.
Why should the users be interested to understand if the program ended
with a newline or no?
Also, creating an "option" to decide which behaviour should be followed
(current one or the one I propose) would make everyone happy: we could
have a PROMPT_COLUMN env var which tells bash where to print the prompt.
E.g. PROMPT_COLUMN==-1 means current behaviour, PROMPT_COLUMN==0 means
my proposed behaviour.
Francesco
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