Hi Thorsten,
Hope this clears it up.
Massively. Thank you!
Best regards,
John
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
Hi Thorsten, and thanks for your solution!
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 (?).
Best regards,
John
Hi John,
> I think I've discovered a bug in mksh. According to the man page:
no, you’ve discovered you did not read the manpage ☺
PS1 The primary prompt for interactive shells. Parameter, com-
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Since backslashes and other special characters may be inter-
