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Re: vi editing mode + color prompt = trouble?


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: vi editing mode + color prompt = trouble?
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:59:45 -0500
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Halim Issa wrote:

> On a non-related note - there are still rumors around that bash 3.2 has some 
> problems with `running backtick commands` compared to the new $(way to do it) 
> - isn't this fixed in the first few patches of 3.2, or are there still 
> compatibility issues from 3.1 to 3.2, and will there be similar changes 
> moving 
> onwards from 3.x to 4.0 ?

Since the only difference between `` and $() is how they're parsed and
expanded, not any difference in their execution, I'd like to say that
bash32-001 fixes all those problems.  Not knowing exactly what they are,
though, makes that kind of tough.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/




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