7.10 What Good Is a Blank Shell Prompt?[This tip is also great if you use a mouse to copy and paste command lines in your window.] Some terminals I've used (like old Hewlett-Packard and Tektronix terminals) had local editing. You could move your cursor up the screen to a previous command line, maybe make some edits to it, then press a SEND LINE key to resend that line to the host. This didn't have anything to do with sophisticated command-line editing ( 11.13 ) like some UNIX shells have now. Maybe your terminal can do that, too.
The problem was that unless I erased the shell prompt (
set prompt=' ' That's right: four spaces. Most UNIX commands start their output at column 1, so my command lines were easy to find because they were indented. And the shell didn't care if I sent four spaces before the command line. So everything was fine until I got my new terminal without a SEND LINE key... (If you want some information in your prompt, too, make a multiline prompt ( 7.5 ) with four spaces in the last line.) - |
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