Bug#517656: ikiwiki: too long underline of questions for automatic setup

Joey Hess joeyh at debian.org
Mon Feb 1 20:16:54 UTC 2010


Niko Tyni wrote:
> No, the prompt is intended to be underlined. Term::Readline uses
> termcap(5) capabilities us ("start underlining") and ue ("end
> underlining") by default to make the prompt stand out.
> 
> This is configurable, just try
> 
>  perl -MTerm::ReadLine -e '$r=Term::ReadLine->new("foo"); $r->ornaments("md,me"); $r->readline("foo    ")'
> 
> to make it use bold mode instead.
> 
> I don't see much to fix on the perl side except possibly mention that
> underlining is the default. OTOH, if that matters to somebody they should
> explicitly configure what they want anyway.
> 
> Joey, are you OK with reassigning this back to ikiwiki?

Yes. However, perl's documentation about how the prompt is displayed by
default does not seem clear.

-- 
see shy jo
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