On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 09:39:24PM +0100, Kenn Humborg mentioned:
> IIRC, there is a special marker that you can stick into a prompt string
> to delimit the portion that is non-printing, so readline knows to ignore
> it. Let's have a look at the bash man page...
>> $ man bash
> [...snip...]
> PROMPTING
> When executing interactively, bash displays the primary prompt PS1 when it is ready to read
> [...snip...]
> \[ begin a sequence of non-printing characters, which could be used to embed a
> terminal control sequence into the prompt
> \] end a sequence of non-printing characters
Arg. That problem has plagued me for about five years. Mutter.
Kate
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