Re: BUG #11028: psql doesn't use 0x01 and 0x02 to inform readline of non-printable PROMPT1 chars

Yes, sorry, actually it's using libedit. Is that supported?

Here is a video of what I'm seeing:
https://app.box.com/s/dj2hzo6tuny2os16t3rd
(This OGV file plays better in VLC than mplayer for me.)

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> fleminra(at)gmail(dot)com writes:
> > Basically, the colorized prompt suggested in
> >
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/app-psql.html#APP-PSQL-PROMPTING
> > :
>
> > testdb=> \set PROMPT1 '%[%033[1;33;40m%]%n(at)%/%R%[%033[0m%]%# '
>
> > results in strange readline behavior. In that prompt, "%[" should be
> > preceded by "%001" and "%]" should be followed by "%002".
>
> Actually, %[ is supposed to expand to \001 and %] is supposed to expand
> to \002.
>
> The example seems to work as given for me. Could you be more specific
> about what's going wrong for you? Also, are you sure you are really
> using GNU readline, and not something else like libedit?
>
> regards, tom lane
>