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Comment by enriquto | Hacker News Reader

I do not like this feature. How can you distinguish the output of a program that outputs a newline from one that doesn't? This is intentional obfuscation. If you are bothered from where your prompt starts, add a newline at the beginning of your prompt.

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There is a "missing linefeed indicator" symbol (usually %) that is output if there is no trailing newline.

So the output of the program that outputs a newline looks like:

  $ program
  output
  $

And output of the program without trailing newline:

  $ program
  output%
  $

There is an issue if the program is expected to output "%" at the end, of course.

To make it a bit easier to distinguish, zsh seems to display the indicator with inverted fg/bg colors.

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