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Re: Issue with the titlebar


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> It was my understanding that one of those escape sequences told the shell
> not to count these characters.

Ah, you're right!  Things between \[...\] in the prompt string aren't
counted.  I missed that little detail.

I retract my objection.

> What's PROMPT_COMMAND?

bashism. A string of shell commands that gets run immediately before
every prompt is displayed.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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