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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: Why csh on Root?
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On 2006-10-19 15:30, Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
> Alex Zbyslaw writes:
> > set prompt="hello%{^G%}there "
> > 
> > where ^G is a single control char, not two chars.
> 
> 	Thanks.  It works perfectly.  I am reading the man for
> tcsh again to attempt to figure out what I missed the first time.

This part:

        %{string%}
            Includes string as a literal escape sequence.  It should be
            used only to change terminal attributes and should not move
            the  cursor  location.  This cannot be the last sequence in
            prompt.

:)