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read: how to have a prompt before the cursor? (2015-06-04 13:17 by mcdutchie #76277)

I'd like to display a prompt and put the cursor after the prompt for input. For instance:

printf 'Enter your name: '
read name

should produce:

Enter your name: _

(with '_' being the cursor).

This works on every shell except yash. Yash displays an inverted '$' and puts the cursor on the beginning of the next line.

Is there any way to circumvent or disable this behaviour?

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Re: read: how to have a prompt before the cursor? (2015-06-04 20:37 by mcdutchie #76278)

[Reply To Message #76277]
> I'd like to display a prompt and put the cursor after the prompt for input.

I have since found out that the answer is to disable the "le-prompt-sp" option:

set +o le-prompt-sp

The man page does not mention that the "le-prompt-sp" also influences the behaviour of "read". This is quite confusing because the "read" command doesn't even support a prompt option.

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