> Trying to get a color prompt working, as well as > cruising up and down the history and doing long > command line editing may result in garbled text, or > revealing partial escape sequences in the case of a > customized prompt. Are these known issues with ksh93 > and that sort of stuff? I'm currently running the Jul > 14 drop on snv_65 and gnome-terminal. > > Thanks, > -mg
Don't know about current ksh93, but with older incarnations, it seems that they interacted strangely with escape sequences in prompts. For instance, I had an escape sequence in the prompt that would set hostname and current directory name in the window label and window icon label on "terminals" that supported such things, like dtterm, xterm, cmdtool. I think I had to add a carriage return so such things wouldn't count as columns of screen used by the prompt; the part of the prompt that actually was meant to be visible came after that. This message posted from opensolaris.org
