[2917] in Athena Bugs
Re: tcsh prompt and redisplay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Thu Aug 17 15:20:08 1989
From: Henry Mensch <henry@MIT.EDU>
To: Barr3y Jaspan <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 17 Aug 89 09:20:40 -0400.
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 15:19:50 EDT
> Tcsh supports a special alias, precmd, which if set holds a
> command that will be executed before printing each prompt.
>
> tcsh does not execute the alias before displaying the prompt when a
> redisplay (C-l) is performed.
this is a judgment call ... some would argue that tcsh is not
displaying a "new" prompt after ^L. i'm inclined to agree with this.
-- henry
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