Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 20:45:17 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 211360] ESC characters are not interpreted by /bin/sh Message-ID: <bug-211360-8-Cz7rJ1fEi8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-211360-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-211360-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211360 James E Keenan <jamesekeenan@yahoo.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jamesekeenan@yahoo.com --- Comment #2 from James E Keenan <jamesekeenan@yahoo.com> --- Are there any plans to develop a workaround for this problem for FreeBSD-11 and later? This came up for me -- a relatively new FreeBSD user -- when I went to use the same assignment to $PS1 in my .shrc on a F11 VM as I had used for several months on a F10.3 VM. The problem was reported to the freebsd-questions mailing list in the thread starting here: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2016-October/274025.html. At first I assumed the problem was due to (a) difference between VirtualBox and VMware; and/or (b) my own ignorance. But as to (b): I've been setting up colored characters in my command-line prompt on Unix-like OSes since 2001. And a contributor to that thread indicated he was having the problem in a "bare metal" environment (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2016-October/274041.html). For reference: uname -a FreeBSD kid51.freebsd11 11.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1 #0 r306420: Thu Sep 29 01:43:23 UTC 2016 root@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I can appreciate that, from one major OS release to the next, there need to be improvements in basic libraries that can have undesired side effects. But, come on -- people have had color in their prompts for decades. Why give it up now? This is clearly a regression in user-friendliness. What will it take to develop a workaround? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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