Re: What should we do with the -n flag in sh ?

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Tue, 23 Feb 2016 01:52:24 +0000
    From:        David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <20160223015224.GA784%netbsd.org@localhost>

  | What you wrote gave me an idea, that unfortunately probably isn't very
  | easy to do: in an interactive shell, clear -n right before or as part
  | of printing the prompt.

That is actually probably not all that hard.   Let me look at it for
a day or two... (while also waiting for more replies from others.)

I take it you do mean effectively implementing "set +n" (which normally
is a meaningless command) at that point, so $- would have 'n' clear
afterwards?

kre