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).