[Bug 211360] ESC characters are not interpreted by /bin/sh

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James E Keenan <jamesekeenan at yahoo.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from James E Keenan <jamesekeenan at 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 at 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

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