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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:56:29 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Sean C. Farley" <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
To:        Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, clint.olsen@gmail.com, serge.gagnon@b2b2c.ca
Subject:   Re: Issue with 9term in devel/plan9port
Message-ID:  <20070612135103.F1665@baba.farley.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070612171533.7134C1E8C4F@holo.morphisms.net>
References:  <20070612171533.7134C1E8C4F@holo.morphisms.net>

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> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Clint Olsen wrote:
>
>> I'm noticing a peculiar behavior in 9term where '%' gets printed in
>> between every prompt.  I built the same on Linux and I didn't see
>> this, so either there's an issue with my setup or a bonafide bugs.

<snip>

The '%' is coming from a line without a newline.  I do not know exactly
what your prompt is doing, but it is how zsh reacts to it.  Older
versions did not do this.  I do not recall when it started happening.
Also, it happens with xterm too.

Example:  /bin/echo -n "FreeBSD"

Sean
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sean-freebsd@farley.org



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