Re: PATCH: random attribute stuff

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Some people want the entire command line to look one way and the output
> from the command to look another way, so they can easily tell what's a
> command and what isn't when scrolling backward through buffered output.
> Leaving effects turned on after the prompt is the only way to do that;
> at some point it was decided that it was better to have the prompt help
> out with it, than to force people to trick the shell into outputting a
> terminal control sequence without using the prompt escapes.

Right, but I'm not convinced it actually works.

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