> On Jan 14, 2021, at 15:12, Herbert Xu wrote:
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> OK, in that case I think it's best to fix this in libedit instead.
Huh? There’s no issue in libedit, only unclear documentation. The
application is the right place to store the prompt: it can be in a
static buffer, or a constant string, in which
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:43:21AM -0500, June Bug wrote:
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> It seems unlikely given the lack of consistency of when libedit
> calls the prompt callback. I only noticed it was happening when I
> patched in support for EL_RPROMPT (right-aligned prompts), which
> when active causes libedit to call
> On Jan 13, 2021, at 01:18, Herbert Xu wrote:
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> What if someone actually wanted the prompt to change?
It seems unlikely given the lack of consistency of when libedit
calls the prompt callback. I only noticed it was happening when I
patched in support for EL_RPROMPT (right-aligned prompts), wh
C. McEnroe wrote:
> Previously, the prompt would be expanded every time editline called the
> getprompt callback. I think the code may have been written assuming that
> editline only calls getprompt once per prompt, but it may actually call
> it many times, for instance every time you type backspa
Previously, the prompt would be expanded every time editline called the
getprompt callback. I think the code may have been written assuming that
editline only calls getprompt once per prompt, but it may actually call
it many times, for instance every time you type backspace. This results
not only i
