(I thought something was weird when nothing had appears on this mailing list since Jan 1st...)
Executive summary: I want to change the input line so the input prompt is always visible, and when the input line scrolls, a reverse "<" or ">" will appear in the direction that has more text than can be displayed. The reason I want to do this is because this would make it easier for me to support wide characters in the input line, taking us closer to unicode support. It was in this place that I would going to include a long, rambling, boring discussion about what the tradeoffs were, but then I realized that I just don't have all of the ducks in a row to give an exhaustive defense of why I am interested in making this change. What I can tell you is sometimes the input prompt is visible, and sometimes it is not, and because the input prompt is output differently from the input line, this makes counting columns a vexing task. It would be much easier to handle the input line if I knew the input prompt was always visible, and always took up X columns, and that I could allocate the rest of the columns to the contents of the input prompt. I sincerely state that it is my belief this would make it easier to rid epic of the lame "one byte == one column" assumption that holds us back from being able to support unicode (utf-8) input. If you really are attached to the way the input prompt is handled now (with it initially being visible, but not being visible after you type a bunch of stuff), please, do say something! What does anybody think of this? Jeremy _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@epicsol.org http://epicsol.org/mailman/listinfo/list
