From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#50186: Shell in emacs very annoying using zsh Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 09:10:31 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87y28na3dc.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4218"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: orbitingflea@qq.com To: 50186@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 08:25:06 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mJVIY-0000yF-Eu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 08:25:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52138 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJVIX-0000J2-9E for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 02:25:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43880) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJVHW-0006kM-M0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 02:24:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39547) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJVHW-0001Xh-Dl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 02:24:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mJVHW-00043W-5U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 02:24:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 06:24:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 50186 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 50186-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B50186.163004542515554 (code B ref 50186); Fri, 27 Aug 2021 06:24:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 50186) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Aug 2021 06:23:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51089 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mJVHE-00042j-Tf for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 02:23:45 -0400 Original-Received: from relay8-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.201]:46969) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mJVHD-00042F-NG for 50186@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 02:23:43 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay8-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3DC101BF20A; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 06:23:36 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: ("orbitingflea@qq.com"'s message of "Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:47:57 +0800") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:212797 Archived-At: > You can see there are multi-line "leading info" (sorry for my poor English, > I mean the characters on the left of the cursor before you enter a command > in the shell, showing the username and the current directory; I don't know > what it is called in English), but in bash there is only one line instead. > I guess this is the key of the problem. This is called "prompt", and you can change such multi-line prompt in zsh PROMPT=$'%~\n%# ' simply by removing \n. Then the prompt will stay on one line. In bash there are different shell variable names for prompt, for example, PS1='\w\n$ ' where you can remove \n too.