> Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
>
>> I'm not quite getting the changes in bash's handling of escape
>> sequences.
>
> I can't reproduce your results:
[...]
> I suspect that you have echo defined as a function or alias, or
> something in $PROMPT_COMMAND or $PS1 is obscuring the output.
Oops, I thought
Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
> I'm not quite getting the changes in bash's handling of escape
> sequences.
I can't reproduce your results:
z4.local(1)$ ./bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.9(5)-release (i386-apple-darwin8.8.1)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
z4.local(1)$ ./bash
z4
Hi Chet, hi bug-bash readers,
I'm not quite getting the changes in bash's handling of escape
sequences.
[EMAIL PROTECTED](~)> echo '\a'
'\a
Ouch? This is not related to escape sequence handling:
[EMAIL PROTECTED](~)> echo -E '\a'
'\a
[EMAIL PROTECTED](~)> echo -e '\a'
'
And yet, it is:
[EM
