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Originally Posted by colucix
Good shot! Cycling through the command history is a mess. I cannot even delete the string using backspace, since it sticks when encounter the escape character.
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It's makes sense; the shell has to know when you encounter the end of the terminal window in order to perform cursor positioning. The distance to EOL is the width of the terminal window - (whatever you type + the length of the prompt). Consequently, the length of the visible prompt must be known.
