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Shell in emacs very annoying using zsh

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Message #23 received at 50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: orbitingflea <at> qq.com, 50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50186: Shell in emacs very annoying using zsh
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:58:19 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

> 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.

And is it a known limitation of shell that multi-line prompts cause
problems?

Michael.

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