On 17Oct2009 21:16, Todd Zullinger <[email protected]> wrote: | 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 \[ | and \].
This is all beautiful, but I think you need to use single quotes instead of doubles. -- Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 364737. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, [...] - fdisk on our new RAID 07oct2007 :-) -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
