Re: Prompt w/ Newline and Linewrap (bash 3.0)

[Chet Ramey]

Marty Combs wrote:
> When I include a newline character in my prompt, the wrap point for
> extended commands occurs as if the newline were not there.
>
> For example, setting:
>
> $ PS1="VERY LONG FANCY PROMPT\n"; export PS1
> VERY LONG FANCY PROMPT
> _
> ^cursor
>
> If I begin typing in an 80 col width xterm...
>
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>                                                         ^
>                                First linewrap occurs here
>
> which is 80 - prompt_length.
>
> I have duplicated the problem by compiling bash 3.0 from tarball on both a
> Redhat 8 and OpenBSD 3.6 system.  They both exhibit the same symptoms.

Please apply patch 2 to bash-3.0.

ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-3.0-patches/bash30-002

Chet

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