On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 03:40:34AM +0200, Oğuz wrote: > > Option B: Fix the line editor to take into account when the > > prompt doesn't start at column 0. > > > > > Yeah, or add a new prompt sequence (e.g. \N) that prints a newline only if > the cursor is not at column 0.
There's no 100% portable way to determine where the cursor is. Shells like zsh that show a special symbol in these cases use a hack to do so. There's a good explanation in this answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/167582/why-zsh-ends-a-line-with-a-highlighted-percent-symbol#answer-302710
