Denys Vlasenko wrote:
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.
Well it seems like the NASA pen problem. Why develop a million dollar
pen when a pencil works just as well?
And thirdly, what about prefixing your prompt with a \n?
Rob disagrees. He says information gets lost that way.
I understand how information can get lost prefixing with a \r, but how
does information get lost when using a \n?
--
vda
~Matthew
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