On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > It was my understanding that one of those escape sequences told the shell > not to count these characters.
Ah, you're right! Things between \[...\] in the prompt string aren't counted. I missed that little detail. I retract my objection. > What's PROMPT_COMMAND? bashism. A string of shell commands that gets run immediately before every prompt is displayed. -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
