Focal: strange behavior of the prompt for the tcsh shell

[Uwe Brauer]

   > 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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