On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 11:22:52AM +1000, George Michaelson wrote: > I tried a long time ago to set PS1 and PS2 to character sequences > which would permit cut-paste to work. I failed, but I didn't try very > hard. I've used :; and ::; to good effect. Since : is a no-op, it just inserts noise into the history. khm