Focal: strange behavior of the prompt for the tcsh shell
Uwe Brauer
oub at mat.ucm.es
Tue Sep 22 13:59:43 UTC 2020
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 9:25 AM Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
> I installed tcsh, used your prompt above, and experiemced the same
> jumping when using my arrow keys.
> When I modify your prompt to either
> set prompt = '%n@%m:%~\n%T %# '
Thanks! I also tried some solution came up with
set prompt = '%B%n@%m: %~> '
But I think I will stick with your setting comes closest to what I want
> or
> set prompt = '%B%n@%m:%~ @%T %#%b '
> the jumping stops.
> There must be some bad interaction between "%B...%b" and "\n".
> There was an upgrade from 6.20 to 6.21 on July 16th 2019 that fixed
> Debian bug 888479 and its title is "tcsh 6.20.00-7 crashes when
> entering non-ascii characters." Maybe your problem's a side-effect of
> that bug fix. Maybe...
Yes very strange, but I don't think I will file a bug report.
regards
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