Re: A one line change I wish to see by default.

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Zeke Williams wrote:
> Would there be any additional gotchas (Other than it won't work with
> non-ANSI terminals) to using "\x1B[A\r\x1B[J" to work around so to
> speak not using ncurses, which is what vim's version of ex uses to
> keep the prompt always at the bottom of the screen with any text from
> the file above it? If not, I say this can work out nicely.

GNU ddrescue (which I also maintain) uses this to overwrite the progress 
status on the screen:

  const char * const up = "\x1B[A";

So I guess the proposed "\x1B[A\r\x1B[J" may work for ed.

Any suggestions about the name of the command-line option that would be used 
to enable this behavior?


Regards,
Antonio.