On 9/16/16 9:25 PM, Ben wrote:
> Hello,
>
> using bash-4.4, setting PS0 to '\[\033[1;36m\]started at
> \t\[\033[0m\]\n' makes it output PS0 with a non-printable \x01\x02
> prefix and suffix.
Yes, those are the expansions of the \[ and \] escape sequences. Since
$PS0 is not being passed to readline for display, you probably don't need
to include those escape sequences at all.
Chet
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
