On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 10/27/15 5:02 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > I decided to play around with the ${var@P} expansion in 4.4-beta.
> >
> > imadev:~$ red=$(tput setaf 1) reset=$(tput sgr0)
> x='\[$red\]\u\[$reset\]@\h:\w\$ '; printf %s "${x@P}" | od -t x1
> >
It might be handy to have some of the escapes that work in $'string'
quoting to also work in prompts especially now with the ${parameter@P}
transformation.
Specifically the hex, unicode and control ones: \xHH, \u, \U
and \cx.
I presume that the dollar-single-quote escapes should not b
2015-11-04 14:45:40 +, Pádraig Brady:
> On 04/11/15 13:47, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > On 11/3/15 7:44 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> >> The shell-expand-line command (bound to Escape-Ctrl-E) incorrectly removes
> >> quotation marks from
> >> the command line, often resulting in a command that differs f
