> 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
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),
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
