On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 18:16, Todd Zullinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Donald Russell wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:36, Petrus de Calguarium <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Donald Russell wrote: > >> > >>> Any ideas/suggestions? > >> > >> None, except to report the bug. > >> > >> I have noticed this problem on and off for years and it doesn't > >> have anything to do with the PS1 prompt. Try entering nothing on > >> the command line, then use the up and down arrows, and eventually > >> your prompt will pick up some stuff from a previous command, > >> although, if you press the backspace, you will see that the input > >> mark is as far left as it can go. > > > > OK, thanks... I really only noticed this after putting newlines etc in > > my PS1 prompt, or at least it got more bothersome then. > > > > I'll file a bug against bash... > > I don't think this is a bug. Rather, I think the problem is caused by > not escaping the color codes you have embedded in your prompt. Try > this instead: > > export PS1="\n\[\033[0;35m\]...@\h] ${PWD}\n$\[\033[0m\]" > > The \[ and \] begin and end a series of non-printable characters. > This tells bash not to count those characters when determining the > length of the prompt. So the color escape sequences are wrapped in \[ > and \]. > > That makes sense since this problem really only started showing up regularly when I changed my PS1 prompt to use color. Thank you. :-)
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