On 11/9/15 7:53 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote:
>
> With editing off, I find that I must delimit variables with braces. Without
> the braces, only the second escape sequence is output. The \] isn't
> terminating the variable name when editing is off.
When line editing isn't enabled, the \[ and \] e
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 11/5/15 7:45 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote:
>
> > That's what the \[ and \] escape sequences expand to and use to
> > communicate information to readline about invisible characters in the
> > prompt (RL_PROMPT_START_IGNORE and RL_PR
On 11/5/15 7:45 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> That's what the \[ and \] escape sequences expand to and use to
> communicate information to readline about invisible characters in the
> prompt (RL_PROMPT_START_IGNORE and RL_PROMPT_END_IGNORE). If you want to
> use the expansion of
On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 06:45:45PM -0600, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> red=$(tput setaf 1)
> none=$(tput sgr0)
> greet='\[$red\]Hello\[$none\]'
> printf '%s\n' "${greet@P}"
> echo -e "${greet@P}"
> read -e -p "${greet@P}"
>
> Naively stripping the delimiters in this case would leave $redHELLO$none
>
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 10/27/15 5:02 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > I decided to play around with the ${var@P} expansion in 4.4-beta.
> >
> > imadev:~$ red=$(tput setaf 1) reset=$(tput sgr0)
> x='\[$red\]\u\[$reset\]@\h:\w\$ '; printf %s "${x@P}" | od -t x1
> >
On 10/27/15 5:02 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> I decided to play around with the ${var@P} expansion in 4.4-beta.
>
> imadev:~$ red=$(tput setaf 1) reset=$(tput sgr0)
> x='\[$red\]\u\[$reset\]@\h:\w\$ '; printf %s "${x@P}" | od -t x1
> 0001 1b 5b 33 31 6d 2 77 6f 6f 6c 65 64 67
I decided to play around with the ${var@P} expansion in 4.4-beta.
imadev:~$ red=$(tput setaf 1) reset=$(tput sgr0)
x='\[$red\]\u\[$reset\]@\h:\w\$ '; printf %s "${x@P}" | od -t x1
0001 1b 5b 33 31 6d 2 77 6f 6f 6c 65 64 67 1 1b
020 5b 6d f 2 40 69 6d 61 64
