Re: Ctrl-U doesn't clear read -ep prompt input properly

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Ctrl-U doesn't clear read -ep prompt input properly
Date	2015-08-07 18:37 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 8/7/15 3:21 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:

>> Since you're adding the non-visible characters to the prompt, you can
>> try bracketing them with \001 and \002, but you have to do that yourself.
>>
> Hey, that works! Thanx! Didn't see it in the documentation. My bad?

It's in the readline documentation.  The \[ and \] prompt string escapes
are translated into RL_PROMPT_START_IGNORE (\001) and RL_PROMPT_END_IGNORE
(\002) as part of prompt expansion.

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