Re: [tlug] Bashing away at Unix

["SL Baur" <steve@example.com>]

On 3/14/08, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> Smells like buffering to me. No?

Actually, no.  It's been a decade or so since I last looked over
the zsh source code, but it smells to me like erase the current line
and put the cursor at far left before writing prompts.

Reason number #156 to love zsh:  You can write shell code to keep
a prompt/window label/etc. always and *correctly* updated with the
current directory, hostname, username, etc.  Zsh has hooks in it's
prompting code, just like the One True Editor, praise be unto XEmacs.

-sb