Mark J. Reed wrote:
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.
That's very honorable of you. And I mean that...
What's PROMPT_COMMAND?
bashism. A string of shell commands that gets run immediately before
every prompt is displayed.
I'm a bash kinda guy. Never seen this before! Thanks for pointing me to
it...
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