From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@xxxxxx> LANG=C man dash shows: PS1 The primary prompt string, which defaults to ``$ '', unless you are the superuser, in which case it defaults to ``# ''. PS2 The secondary prompt string, which defaults to ``> ''. PS4 Output before each line when execution trace (set -x) is enabled, defaults to ``+ ''. Each of the documented default values has a graphic character and two spaces between the quotation marks. However, the actual default values have only one space, rather than two. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote[1]: > Here's the diff against 0.5.5.1-7.4. Thanks. Looking at the formatted output, I see some other extra spaces (mostly around punctuation), but fixing these confusing ones first doesn't sound like a bad idea. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/624715 src/dash.1 | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/dash.1 b/src/dash.1 index ddeb52b..3847d98 100644 --- a/src/dash.1 +++ b/src/dash.1 @@ -2276,16 +2276,16 @@ setting. There is a maximum of 10 mailboxes that can be monitored at once. .It Ev PS1 The primary prompt string, which defaults to -.Dq $ \ , +.Dq $\ , unless you are the superuser, in which case it defaults to -.Dq # \ . +.Dq #\ . .It Ev PS2 The secondary prompt string, which defaults to -.Dq \*[Gt] \ . +.Dq \*[Gt]\ . .It Ev PS4 Output before each line when execution trace (set -x) is enabled, defaults to -.Dq + \ . +.Dq +\ . .It Ev IFS Input Field Separators. This is normally set to -- 1.7.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html