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@@ -62799,16 +62799,20 @@ entered into the history. .SS* Limitations -The interactive listener can only accept up to 1023 characters of input -in a single command line. The command line must contain exactly one complete -\*(TL expression, or a comment. Multiple expressions will not be evaluated. -Expressions cannot be continued across multiple lines of entry. +The interactive listener can only accept up to 1023 abstract characters of +input in a single command line which have a combined display width of up to +2047 character positions, whichever is less. -The interactive listener is based on 8 bit character processing. Its editing -functions do not recognize UTF-8 multi-byte characters. +Though the edit buffer is referred as the "command line", it may contain +multi-line input. The carriage return characters which separate multiple lines +count as one abstract character each, and are understood to occupy two display +positions. + +The command line must contain exactly one complete \*(TL expression, or a +comment. Multiple expressions will not be evaluated. The screen updating logic in the listener is based on the assumption that -the display terminal uses DEC VT100 emulation. No other terminal emulation +the display terminal uses ANSI emulation. No other terminal emulation is supported. The .code TERM environment variable is ignored. |