Re: Cursor jumps to leftmost column on trap ... SIGALRM

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/4/22 6:01 PM, Markus Schwarzenberg wrote:

> > > I'd be happy with some command forcing redisplay, executed from
> > > within the handler as a workaround.
> >
> > On a new line? Duplicating what was there before the SIGALRM? I think
> > you'd be surprised at how many people would disagree with you.
>
> Didn't mean on a new line, of course. Rather tought of a kind of redraw
> command.

If you mean from within the signal handler, after executing the trap, this
can overwrite partial lines of output from the trap command (or, more
generally, the application's SIGALRM handler).

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