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wtbob on Oct 21, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hints for writing Unix tools

Or, y'know, have coloured prompts but place the escape characters such that they don't mess with prompt-detection regexps.

philh on Oct 21, 2014 [–]

To be precise, what you're suggesting is that we have prompts which are allowed to be colored except for the $/# at the end, because you can't color those without following them by escape characters. And that prompts must have a $/# at the end.

I don't consider that an acceptable solution.

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