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Re: bold prompt quirk

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Harres@xxxxxxxx (John Harres)
Subject: Re: bold prompt quirk
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 09:48:50 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199701142256.PAA04037@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "John Harres" at Jan 14, 97 03:56:03 pm

John Harres wrote:
>While fiddling around with color prompts, I noticed this quirk:
>
>PS1="%B${PURPLE}%m${NORMAL}%(#.#.>)%b "
>
>does not display the > (or #) in bold, while
>
>PS1="%B${PURPLE}%m${NORMAL}%b%B%(#.#.>)%b "
>
>does.

I suspect that your terminal just doesn't like overlapping colour and
attribute selection, or possibly your ${NORMAL} is cancelling more than
just colour.  In any case, there's not a lot we can do about that in
the shell.

-zefram

References:
- bold prompt quirk
  - From: John Harres

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