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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject:  Re: Issue with the titlebar
Date:  Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:19:43 -0700
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Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> It was my understanding that one of those escape sequences told the 
>> shell not to count these characters.
> Ah, you're right! Things between \[...\] in the prompt string aren't 
> counted. I missed that little detail.
>
> I retract my objection.
That's very honorable of you. And I mean that...
>> What's PROMPT_COMMAND?
> bashism. A string of shell commands that gets run immediately before 
> every prompt is displayed.
I'm a bash kinda guy. Never seen this before! Thanks for pointing me to 
it...
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