Hi John,
>> no, you’ve discovered you did not read the manpage ☺
>
> I did read it, but I didn't understand it...! Adding the \r and surrounding
> all escape sequences with \1 solves my problem, but I don't understand why
> (?).
Ah okay.
Basically, the first \1\r says: make the \1 into a marker.
After that, \1 switches between “counted / visible” and
“not counted / invisible”.
So, in an example: $'\1\r\1\033[1m\1$PWD\1\033[0m\1 % '
\1\r - define marker
\1\033[1m\1 - invisible part
$PWD - visible part
\1\033[0m\1 - invisible part
% - visible part
Hope this clears it up.
By the way, use just $? instead of $(echo $?) ☺ or look how
dot.mkshrc handles that (it shows $?| if $?≠0).
bye,
//mirabilos
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11:56⎜«liwakura:#!/bin/mksh» also, i wanted to add mksh to my own distro │
i was disappointed that there is no makefile │ but somehow the Build.sh is
the least painful built system i've ever seen │ honours CC, {CPP,C,LD}FLAGS
properly │ looks cleary like done by someone who knows what they are doing
