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| From: | Chet Ramey |
| Subject: | Re: Screen Corruption when browsing Command History with Custom Prompt |
| Date: | Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:49:09 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) |
Ashley Wilson wrote:
Repeat-By:
Set a custom prompt using the PS1 variable as follows:
PS1="\n\e[0;31m\u: \w\n# \e[m"
Then, browse command history using up/down keys.
As the documentation states, you need to bracket sequences of non-printing characters in prompt strings with the \[ and \] escape sequences. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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