Re: Invisible PROMPT2

On 2019-Nov-18, Thomas Munro wrote:

> Nice idea.  Here's one like that, that just does the counting at the
> end and looks out for readline control codes.  It's pretty naive about
> what "width" means though: you'll get two spaces for UTF-8 encoded é,
> and I suppose a complete implementation would know about the half
> width/full width thing for Chinese and Japanese etc.

Hmm ... is this related to what Juan José posted at
https://postgr.es/m/CAC+AXB28ADgwdNRA=aAoWDYPqO1DZR+5NTO8iXGSsFrXyVpqYQ@mail.gmail.com
?  That's backend code of course, though.

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