Re: Dynamic prompt code assignment not working.

[Chet Ramey]

dmarsh@hpsvdjm.ipf.fc.hp.com wrote:

> Machine Type: i386-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 2.05b
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>         Dynamic prompt code assignment not working.
>     This not only blows away \u, \w, etc. but it blows away
>     colors because delimiting non-printing characters doesn't work
>     so the shell gets confused about the length of the prompt with colors.
>
> Repeat-By:
>     genericprompt> PS1="$(setprompt)"
>     dmarsh > echo $PS1
>     \u >

The documentation states fairly clearly that the word expansions
are performed after the escape sequences in the prompt string are
decoded.  There's no recursive decoding of escape sequences that
might result from expansion.

Chet