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From: Zefram <zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: bold prompt quirk
To: Harres@UWyo.Edu (John Harres)
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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