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Re: Screen Corruption when browsing Command History with Custom Prompt


From: Matthew Woehlke
Subject: Re: Screen Corruption when browsing Command History with Custom Prompt
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:02:32 -0500
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Ashley Wilson wrote:
No, Wait! That's not the issue!! This works just fine:

         PS1="\n\[\e[0;32m\]\u: \w\n# \[\e[m\]"

So, all I had to do was to add '\[' before and '\]' after the coloring
sequence to fix everything!

Of course it works; this is exactly what Chet was trying to tell you.

--
Matthew
ENOCOFFEE: operator suffering from lack of sleep and/or early-morning-itis




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