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Shell in emacs very annoying using zsh

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Message #32 received at 50186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
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 19:57:58 +0300

>> 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?

Actually, I see no problems with multi-line prompts in Emacs.
I tried to use "\n" in PS1 in bash, and then run M-x shell.
No problems noticed :)

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