Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!cisunx!ejkst
From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP "prompt" command bug
Message-ID: <10216@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 88 21:02:35 GMT
References: <329@hocpa.UUCP>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
Lines: 23

In article <329@hocpa.UUCP> rusty@hocpa.att.com (91341-M.W.HADDOCK) writes:
>When putting %p into the prompt string anything that follows
>it is not displayed.  For example, if I type the command

>	prompt "[%p] --->"

>what will appear for the next prompt (if my current directory is RAM:)
>is

>	[RAM:>


I've noticed this, too.  I find it irritating because I would like to
have my prompt be in a different color.  The escape sequence to change
to color 2 is printed, but not the sequence to switch back to color 1,
so my text all comes out in color 2.



-- 
------------
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP