Re: Proposed Prompt Escapes

[Dennis Williamson]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

Dennis Williamson <dennistwilliamson@gmail.com> writes:

> But wait, you don't need the intermediate step! It already works!!!
>
> prompt=$'\u, something about dominoes \U1F061  \@ '

You should quote the backslashes.

prompt=$'\\u, something about dominoes \U1F061  \\@ '

Andreas.

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Thanks. That's better since it defers their evaluation which is important when there is a conflict between the ANSI-C escapes and the prompt escapes (e.g. \u (user) followed immediately by hex chars, \t, \v).

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