Re: Multi-line PS1 color disappearance problem

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/22/23 2:25 AM, email@miropalmu.cc wrote:


> But I did not know that '\e' is valid
> ANSI escape sequence prefix.

It's not in the ISO C definition of a character constant or string
literal. It's a common extension that bash and other shells implement --
common enough that it's in the POSIX specification of $'...' quoting, which
will be in the next version of the standard.

https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=249

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