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Re: Ctrl-U doesn't clear read -ep prompt input properly
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Ctrl-U doesn't clear read -ep prompt input properly |
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Fri, 7 Aug 2015 18:37:23 -0400 |
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On 8/7/15 3:21 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>> Since you're adding the non-visible characters to the prompt, you can
>> try bracketing them with \001 and \002, but you have to do that yourself.
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> Hey, that works! Thanx! Didn't see it in the documentation. My bad?
It's in the readline documentation. The \[ and \] prompt string escapes
are translated into RL_PROMPT_START_IGNORE (\001) and RL_PROMPT_END_IGNORE
(\002) as part of prompt expansion.
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