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Re: Tip: when your terminal gets all screwed up
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Tom H <[log in to unmask]>
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Tom H <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 15:53:34 -0500
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On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 1:34 PM, jdow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 2017-11-11 04:26, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> So it should be:
>>
>> PS1="\[\e[0m\][\u@\h:\l \w]\$ "
>
> Maybe. I got silly and experimented.
>
> PS1="\[\e[1m\][\u@\h:\l \w]\$ "
> and
> PS1="\e[1m[\u@\h:\l \w]\$ "
> and
> PS1="\e[1m[\\u@\\h:\\l \\w]\$ "
>
> all produce the same thing, which leaves the issue even more confused
> than when we started.

That's unsurprising because they're all the same (you're setting all
your text to bold, including what you type).

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