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Re: [MiNT] pppd



Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com> writes:

|> > > Perhaps because bash never implemented proper prompting options?
|> > 
|> > Hu? What do you mean? Are $PS1 for simple prompts and $PROMPT_COMMAND
|> > for more complex ones not enough? Or are you actually meaning something
|> > different?
|> 
|> Neither strings change what options are available.  For instance,
|> bash doesn't have any escape code to explicitely make the prompt
|> show in BOLD, but tcsh does.

Of course, it has: PS1="\[$(tput bold)\]foobar\[$(tput sgr0)\]"

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