On 05/16/2018 03:11 PM, R0b0t1 wrote:
Today, I feel the need to ask about how to Globally Disable Prompt
Formatting, In All Programs Everywhere For All Time.
I'm not aware of a universal way to disable prompt formatting.
Are you talking specifically about the shell prompt?
What other things are using prompt formatting? (I've added it to a few
things via rlwrap, but I doubt that's the case here.)
Is the only way to find every program that generates escape sequences
and disable it? What about kernel messages during boot?
I want to say that things should be leveraging TERMCAP and the TERM
environment variable. However, I don't think /any/ of the things that
I've read about (shell) prompt formatting have taken TERMCAP into
account. Instead they all seem to echo raw vt100 escape codes directly.
I don't even know how to pass through something like TERMCAP to leverage
the TERM environment variable setting.
I don't know if it's your case or not, but if you are talking about the
shell's PROMPT blindly echoing escape characters and impacting various
terminal emulators that you're using, I think the shell itself is the
first (and likely only) place to look.
I have personally run into this problem and solved it differently. I
configure a fairly fancy prompt (both left and right in Zsh). But I do
so conditionally based on what the answer back value is. Part of my
shell's init scripts query the answer back and expect specific values.
If those values aren't seen, then a very simple prompt (without any
escape codes) is used.
This means that I must configure my terminal (emulators) to reply with
something (usually the host name) and then tweak my init script to match
the host name as a known safe place for my fancy prompt.
I doubt that this directly answers your question, nor do I know if it
helps or not. Hopefully it gives you food for thought.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
