Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/03/25/12:58:41
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Eric Blake wrote (snipped):
> In addition to fixing the default PS1 for bash to correctly delineate
> non-printing characters,
One thing that bash does is *deliberately* compute the line break one
character *before* the edge of the screen. You can see what happens when
it is fooled into thinking the prompt is 1 character shorter than it
actually is (e.g., "export PS1='$\[ \]'" and type a long command).
> it fixes the following additional bugs: When using case, you do not
> need to quote a command substitution; this is particularly important
> since "`""`" is non-portable, just use case `""` instead.
Most shells understand "`""`" (particularly, all official shells on
Cygwin, which is what's important). In fact, in this particular case,
it's probably better to use "``" instead of `""`, IMO.
> Sorting is not necessarily strictly alphanumeric in other locales (not
> that cygwin has good locale support, but still...).
Good point.
Igor
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