Re: ANSI color codes, etc?

[Chet Ramey]

>       Hello, maybe you guys can help me with this. I recently grabbed
> the latest bash from gnu.org in hopes that it would fix a problem i was
> having with bash-2.03.
>       What's happening is that whenever I use a PS1 variable with ANSI
> color codes or xterm control codes (<esc>]0;<term title><control-g>)
> contained in it, the line warpping suddenly ceases to work. (I'll type a
> few characters, and then bash will take me to the next line, etc; and it
> causes all kinds of annoying editing errors.)

Reading the manual page would have helped.  The PROMPTING section says, in
part:


              \[     begin a sequence of non-printing characters,
                     which could be used to embed a terminal con-
                     trol sequence into the prompt
              \]     end a sequence of non-printing characters

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