Re: Read Prompt Width Miscalculation (Non-Printing Characters)

There's a (secret?) feature of readline that lets you do \[ \] type stuff using 001 and 002 bytes instead. This made my day! Thank you.

Re: Read Prompt Width Miscalculation (Non-Printing Characters)

... or you can write your prompt string as you would write PS1 and use the ${word@P} expansion when you pass it as an argument to `read' (preferred). This is new to me. Thank you. Should I write a patch for the man page?