Re: Good documentation about literal escape sequences in prompt?

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 12,  7:35pm, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
} Subject: Re: Good documentation about literal escape sequences in prompt?
}
} On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Bart Schaefer wrote:
} 
} > The doc says LITERAL escape sequence; the substring \e is not LITERALLY the
} > character with ASCII value decimal-27.  What other part of the doc gave you
} > the idea that prompting would replace \e with something else?
} 
} Why docs does not tell, what those so called literal escape sequences mean
} and how they they differ from other kind of escape sequences?

Yes, there's probably a bit of a problem with context there.  In prompts,
"escape sequence" means "sequence of characters, often beginning with an
ASCII 27, that are interpreted by terminals to change display properties."

Oliver's answered the rest of your questions, I see.

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