From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13294 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2000 18:38:16 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 12 Mar 2000 18:38:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 13951 invoked by alias); 12 Mar 2000 18:38:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 10093 Received: (qmail 13923 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2000 18:38:08 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1000312183755.ZM27854@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 18:37:55 +0000 In-Reply-To: Comments: In reply to Juhapekka Tolvanen "Re: Good documentation about literal escape sequences in prompt?" (Mar 12, 7:35pm) References: X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: Juhapekka Tolvanen Subject: Re: Good documentation about literal escape sequences in prompt? Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com