On Sat Mar 31, 2007; 09:03PM -0500, Jeremy Nelson wrote: > (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. >
This sounds more attractive than what we have now anyway. > 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 -chip -- personal: chip norkus; irc: wd; [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for plan or keys; http://telekinesis.org _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@epicsol.org http://epicsol.org/mailman/listinfo/list
