On Sunday 17 May 2009 17:16, Matthew Hiles wrote: > I don't think adding a whole lot of iffy terminal stuff is the best > approach. If you're in the middle of typing a command and can't get back > to the first line in bash, just hit ctrl-u, ctrl-y. I assume it wouldn't > be too difficult to add ctrl-y (paste) to bb shells? > > Besides that, what's wrong with just pressing enter once if your prompt > didn't start at the first column?
When AIX people said "what's the problem in running eval `resize` once in a while?" when I complained that when I log in to AIX via ssh, the damn thing doesn't know what my terminal window size is, I responded by starting a search for a new job, where I won't be forced to do such idiotic things, especially that other OSes manage to do that for me automatically. > And thirdly, what about prefixing your prompt with a \n? Rob disagrees. He says information gets lost that way. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
