On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Peter A. Castro wrote: > > > 2. If you start mc under zsh in a *console* window with the command > > > prompt option, no prompt is shown - just the cursor: > > > "_" instead of "[EMAIL PROTECTED] _"
I found the reason. Now I should think about a fix :) I have something in mind but will take a day or two and maybe a discussion on the MC developers list. However here is short description of the problem for those interested. When reading the subshell prompt MC displays that part of it, which is contained between the last '\r' or '\n' character and the end of the prompt. If there are control characters in this part they are stripped - what's left is displayed to the user. Now, when run in console window under Cygwin, (same should be on Linux) with the TERM variable set to 'cygwin', zsh ouputs this sequence: \r\e[0;[EMAIL PROTECTED];36m%\e[m \e[K\e[I\e[I\e[I\e[I\e[I\e[I\e[I \e[1;34m/\e[m 4:4\r\e[I\e[I\e[C\e[C\e[C\e[C\e[C\e[C Notice the final '\r' character, there is not a single printable character after it at all. So everything gets stripped and there is no prompt displayed in MC. >From what I understand this control sequence wants to move the cursor right after the [EMAIL PROTECTED] part of the prompt - '\e[C' on Cygwin is the cuf1 and kcuf1 terminfo capability. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
