Re: still having cursor problems on MacOSX Terminal and iTerm

[Chet Ramey]

sci-fi@hush.ai wrote:

> I have it set thusly now:
> PS1='\[\e[0;7m\]\h[\w]\n\u\$\[\e[0m\] '
> .                     ^^  two-line prompt
> Is \n considered a printing character or not?

Yes.  It causes the visual display to change:  the cursor moves to the
next line.  Readline takes the newline into account when performing its
redisplay.

Chet

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