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authorTom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>2016-12-19 17:36:19 +1300
committerTom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>2016-12-19 17:36:19 +1300
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Attempt at properly escaping non-printing chars
This is supposed to be the equivalent of \[ \] in Bash PS1... >Note that since the command line editors try to figure out how long the >prompt is (so they know how far it is to edge of the screen), escape >codes in the prompt tend to mess things up. You can tell the shell not >to count certain sequences (such as escape codes) by prefixing your >prompt with a non-printing char- acter (such as control-A) followed by >a carriage return and then delimiting the escape codes with this >non-printing character. If you don't have any non-printing characters, >you're out of luck... BTW, don't blame me for this hack; it's in the >original ksh. <http://blog.0xpebbles.org/ksh-prompt-coloring-example>
Diffstat (limited to 'ksh')
-rw-r--r--ksh/kshrc.d/prompt.ksh7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ksh/kshrc.d/prompt.ksh b/ksh/kshrc.d/prompt.ksh
index 8b460136..2ebe1099 100644
--- a/ksh/kshrc.d/prompt.ksh
+++ b/ksh/kshrc.d/prompt.ksh
@@ -81,8 +81,13 @@ function prompt {
} >/dev/null 2>&1
+ # Play ball with ksh's way of escaping non-printing characters
+ typeset es nl
+ es=$(printf '\00')
+ nl=$(printf '\n')
+
# String it all together
- PS1="${format}${PS1}${reset}"' '
+ PS1="${es}${nl}${es}${format}${es}${PS1}${es}${reset}${es}"' '
PS2='> '
PS3='? '
PS4='+<$?> $LINENO:'