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Re: [Help-bash] read -ep and ANSI colour sequences


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] read -ep and ANSI colour sequences
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:24:37 -0500
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On 2/20/13 6:44 AM, Pierre Gaston wrote:

> I mean in PS1 you should surround the terminal codes with \[  \] so
> that readline can calculate the length of the prompt correctly.

read -ep $'\001\033[1m\002ABC\001\033[0m\002' value

will do the right thing on the particular terminal (emulator) the
original poster is using.

Chet

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