Hi!
"... Note that since the command line editors try to figure out how long the prompt is (so they know how far it is to edge of the screen), escape codes in the prompt tend to mess things up. ..." Okay, I get it, I'm using escape codes, so I need the following hack. "... You can tell the shell not to count certain sequences (such as escape codes) by prefixing your prompt with a non-printing character (such as control-A) followed by a carriage return and then delimiting the escape codes with this non-printing character." I've put my escape character to a variable to make things cleaner: ESC="^" So if I have a simple prompt like this: PS1='$ESC[01;32m$USER> ' now if I prefix my prompt with a non-printing char (with control-A like suggested) then I get an error when starting the shell: /bin/pdksh: /home/leva/.profile[11]: no closing quote I see that I must put a carriage return after that, but I don't know how. How can I put a CR after the control-A (if control-A is what I need at all)? Daniel -- LeVA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
