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Re: Why does colors() not use %{ %}?

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Why does colors() not use %{ %}?
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:03:13 -0700
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On Jul 19,  2:23am, Richard Hartmann wrote:
}
} after a somewhat embarassing email to -users, I realized colors() does
} not properly escape color codes in its variables. What is the reason
} for this behaviour?

Because prompts are not the only place you might want to use colors,
and even in a prompt it's wasteful to include the %{ and %} multiple
times if you're going to use several color sequences in a row.

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- Why does colors() not use %{ %}?
  - From: Richard Hartmann

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