Re: readline eats previous text on line

[Kevin Ryde]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Good point.  I believe Jon's going to raise this (inability to do
> readline starting from the column after the prompt) with the readline
> people.

I see there's an rl_already_prompted, though you still have to tell it
the prompt string to make redisplay work.

I suppose readline.scm could expose that variable if desired.  But
there's a gazillion global variables in readline, maybe some general
mechanism for setting/getting would be nice.