Jennifer Pioch wrote:
> On 6/21/08, Chris Pickett <pkchris at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > On 6/19/08, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> > > 2008-06-17: ksh93 update tarballs for Solaris Nevada+Indiana
> > >
> > > These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris
> > > >= B84 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ksh93t-_20080614 and
> > match PSARC/2008/094 ("ksh93 Update 1" ;
> > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2008/094)/ +
> > PSARC/2008/344 ("ksh93 Integration Update 1 Amendments 1" ;
> > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2008/344/)
[snip]
> > > * /etc/ksh.kshrc now sets a default prompt (PS1) which contains
> > > <username>@<hostname>:<current_directory>$<blank> for normal
> > > users and <username>@<hostname>:<current_directory>#<blank> for
> > > user "root"; the prompt length itself is limited to ~~20
> > > characters to ensure it only occupies 1/4 of a standard 80x24
> > > terminal window.
> >
> > Previous releases used multiple lines when editing lines that are
> > longer than the window width. Why is it no longer the default?
>
> File a bug. /etc/ksh.kshrc has the line set -o multiline commented out again.
Erm... there is no need to file a bug. I disabled the $ set -o multiline
#-line in /etc/ksh.kshrc since we thought that this is the last major
update of the prototype011 codebase before requesting code review and
doing the putback and the "multiline" input mode didn't work properly
with non-ASCII characters, e.g. the EURO symbol in *.UTF-8 locales,
Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters etc. and that would render the shell
unuseable in interactive mode for users from these contries...
... in the meantime there is a small delay with moving the tree from
Subversion to SCCS and there is now a gap today to pull-in another
update from the upstream source repository which should fix this problem
(hopefully) ... :-)
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Bye,
Roland
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