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Making a Love Ghost w/ Cyborg Eye as your Bash prompt
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Credit to these very helpful Internet sources:

The StackOverflow discussion, in particular, got me over the problem of the cursor position being screwed up (overlapping and overwriting the line) when doing escape sequences. Apparently you have to prepend \[ and append \] around each escape sequence.

Setting up the prompt

Set this in your ~/.bash_profile:

export PS1="༼ つ\[\033[31m\](\[\033[5m\]♥\[\033[0m\033[31m\])\[\033[0m\]_♥༽つ \W $ "
  • \033[31m - red
  • \033[5m - blink
  • \033[0m - reset
@AbhimanyuAryan
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Sir I have got weird symbols on Windows machine. Any Idea? So I need powerline font or there some other issue?

Also heart ain't blinking :p

weird

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qral commented Mar 14, 2016

Font / unicode problem..

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