Francesco Montorsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > why would you ever want to have the prompt printed at non-zero column of > the terminal?
One possible reason: so you can know whether the previous command ended its output with a newline. Otherwise the output becomes slightly ambiguous. >> If you want the shell to always add an extra newline then you can >> always add one to your PS1 setting. > > unfortunately in that way I suppose the terminal would then show: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo hello world > hello world > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Yes. This always puts the prompt at the beginning of the line, and still lets you distinguish newline-terminated output from unterminated output. paul _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
