>The reason it needs to keep track of this is that unix terminals suck. That suckage predates Unix by a fair amount. But Unix was certainly caught up in it.
>However, if your shell prompt didn't start at the left edge of the >screen (which happens surprisingly often), the resulting line editing >is completely horked once you go past the right edge of the screen. Which is why many (most?) shells accept a ^L to repaint the entire prompt line, if they've got that special width logic. -- Jim _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
